Injection seeded frequency stabilized Nd:YAG ring oscillator following a Pound-Drever-Hall scheme

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 34, 2007, Pages 8358-8363

  Sträßer, Alexander ^a   Waltinger, Thomas ^a   Ostermeyer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM QUALITY; DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL RADAR;

ROOT MEAN SQUARE; YAG LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 39049096812     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.008358     Document Type: Article

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