Beat-note locking in dual-polarization lasers submitted to frequency-shifted optical feedback

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1104-1110

  Thévenin, Jérémie ^a   Vallet, Marc ^a   Brunel, Marc ^a   Gilles, Hervé ^b   Girard, Sylvain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ERBIUM; GLASS LASERS; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIZATION; PUMPING (LASER); STATE FEEDBACK; YTTERBIUM;

CONTINUOUS WAVES; DELAY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIODE-PUMPED; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; ER:YB:GLASS; FREE-RUNNING LASERS; FREQUENCY-SHIFTED FEEDBACK; FREQUENCY-SHIFTED OPTICAL FEEDBACK; LOCKING RANGE; LOCKING TECHNIQUE; MODEL EQUATIONS; ND : YAG LASERS; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 79959250976     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.28.001104     Document Type: Article

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