Low noise planar external cavity laser for interferometric fiber optic sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7316, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Alalusi, Mazin ^a   Brasil, Paul ^a   Lee, Sanggeon ^a   Mols, Peter ^a   Stolpner, Lew ^a   Mehnert, Axel ^a   Li, Steve ^a  

^a Redfern Integrated Optics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterfly package; Fiber optic sensing; Linewidth; Phase noise; Planar external cavity laser; Relative intensity noise; Remote interferometric sensing; Seismic exploration

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY PACKAGE; FIBER OPTIC SENSING; PLANAR EXTERNAL CAVITY LASER; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE; REMOTE INTERFEROMETRIC SENSING; SEISMIC EXPLORATION;

EMITTER COUPLED LOGIC CIRCUITS; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; LINEWIDTH; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHASE NOISE; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SENSORS;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 69749102923     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.828849     Document Type: Conference Paper

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