Free spectral range measurement of a fiberized Fabry-Perot etalon with sub-Hz accuracy

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 11264-11269

  Mandridis, Dimitrios ^a   Ozdur, Ibrahim ^a   Bagnell, Marcus ^a   Delfyett, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS;

ACOUSTO-OPTIC MODULATOR; ERROR SIGNAL; FABRY-PEROT ETALONS; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; LASER SOURCES; LONG TERM DRIFT; NARROW LINEWIDTH LASERS; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE; POUND-DREVER-HALL; SINGLE SIDE BANDS;

ETALONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 77952861978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.011264     Document Type: Article

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