Optical referencing technique with CW lasers as intermediate oscillators for continuous full delay range frequency comb interferometry

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 23358-23370

  Deschênes, Jean Daniel ^a   Giaccari, Philippe ^b   Genest, Jér̂ome ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Segelhof 9P   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PASSIVE FILTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETRY;

CONTINUOUS SCANNING; CW-LASER; FREQUENCY COMBS; FULL RESOLUTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LASER OSCILLATORS; MEASUREMENT TIME; OPTICAL MODES; REFLECTOMETRY MEASUREMENTS; REPETITION RATE; SINGLE SHOTS; SPECTRAL ELEMENT; SPECTRAL RANGE; SPECTRAL SIGNAL; SPECTROMETRY MEASUREMENTS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 78149400481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.023358     Document Type: Article

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