Simple approach to the relation between laser frequency noise and laser line shape

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 4801-4807

  Di Domenico, Gianni ^a   Schilt, Stéphane ^a   Thomann, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPECTRAL DENSITY;

APPROXIMATE FORMULAS; FREQUENCY FLUCTUATION; FREQUENCY NOISE SPECTRA; LASER FREQUENCY; LASER LINE SHAPE; LASER LINE-WIDTH; SIMPLE APPROACH; SIMPLE EXPRESSION;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77957655050     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.004801     Document Type: Article

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