Mode stability of external cavity diode lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 35, 2009, Pages 6692-6700

  Saliba, Sebastian D ^a   Junker, Mark ^a   Turner, Lincoln D ^b   Scholten, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER RESONATORS; LOCATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CONTINUOUS MODE; EXTERNAL CAVITY; EXTERNAL-CAVITY DIODE LASER; MODE-HOP-FREE TUNING; OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; STANDARD COMPONENTS; TEMPERATURE STABILITY;

DIODES;

EID: 73649107616     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.006692     Document Type: Article

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