An agile laser with ultra-low frequency noise and high sweep linearity

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3284-3297

  Jiang, Haifeng ^a   Kéfélian, Fabien ^b   Lemonde, Pierre ^a   Clairon, André ^a   Santarelli, Giorgio ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE MÉTROLOGIE ET D ESSAIS LNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEARIZATION; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

CONSTANT RATE; FIBER LENGTH; FOURIER; FREQUENCY ERRORS; FREQUENCY NOISE; NOISE CONTRIBUTIONS; NON-LINEARITY; POWER IMBALANCE; RAYLEIGH BACKSCATTERING; STABILIZED LASERS; TUNING RANGES; ULTRA-LOW FREQUENCIES;

THERMAL NOISE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; LINEAR MODELS;

EID: 77149171738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003284     Document Type: Article

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