Ultra-stable, widely tunable and absolutely linked mid-IR coherent source

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 9582-9587

  Galli, I ^a,b   Bartalini, S ^a,b   Cando, P ^a,b   Giusfredi, G ^a,b   Mazzotti, D ^a,b   De Natale, P ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

ABSOLUTE FREQUENCY; ABSORPTION SENSITIVITY; COHERENT SOURCES; HIGH-FINESSE CAVITY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS; SHORT TERM; SPECTRAL FEATURE; WIDELY TUNABLE;

OPTICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; LIGHTING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66849097831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009582     Document Type: Article

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