Highly sensitive dispersion measurement of a high-power passive optical resonator using spatial-spectral interferometry

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 26184-26195

  Pupeza, Ioachim ^a   Gu, Xun ^a   Fill, Ernst ^a   Eidam, Tino ^b   Limpert, Jens ^b   Tünnermann, Andreas ^b   Krausz, Ferenc ^a   Udem, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUP DELAY; INTERFEROMETRY;

AT RESONANCE; COMPLEX RATIO; DISPERSION MEASUREMENTS; FEMTOSECONDS; GROUP DELAY DISPERSION; HIGH-POWER; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; INTRACAVITY POWER; LOADED CAVITY; NONLINEAR PROCESS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY;

DISPERSIONS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL DEVICES; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 78650037581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026184     Document Type: Article

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