Laser phase noise reduction for industrial interferometric applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 4399-4407

  Dubois, Marc ^a   Burr, Kent C ^a   Drake, Thomas E ^b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; CRYSTALS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; LASER PULSES; NOISE ABATEMENT; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONICS;

ABSORBED LASER ENERGY; INDUSTRIAL INTERFEROMETRIC APPLICATIONS; LASER ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SIGNALS;

LASERS;

EID: 4043147400     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.004399     Document Type: Article

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