Thermal-noise limit in the frequency stabilization of lasers with rigid cavities

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 25, 2004, Pages

  Numata, Kenji ^a   Kemery, Amy ^a   Camp, Jordan ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF THERMAL EXPANSION (CTE); FLUCTUATION DISSIPATION THEOREM (FDT); LASER INTERFEROMETER SPACE ANTENNA (LISA); THERMAL-NOISE SPECTRUM;

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MIRRORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THEOREM PROVING; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMAL NOISE;

LASERS;

EID: 42749099330     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.250602     Document Type: Article

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