Solid-state laser intensity stabilization at the 10-8 level

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 1876-1878

  Rollins, Jameson ^a   Ottaway, David ^a   Zucker, Michael ^a   Weiss, Rainer ^a   Abbott, Richard ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIER (MOPA); PRESTABILIZED LASER (PSL); RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE (RIN);

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACTUATORS; GRAVITATION; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHOTODETECTORS;

SOLID STATE PHYSICS;

EID: 4043123862     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.001876     Document Type: Article

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