Demonstration of on-sky calibration of astronomical spectra using a 25 GHz near-IR laser frequency comb

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6631-6643

  Ycas, Gabriel G ^a,b   Quinlan, Franklyn ^b   Diddams, Scott A ^b   Osterman, Steve ^a   Mahadevan, Suvrath ^c   Redman, Stephen ^b   Terrien, Ryan ^c   Ramsey, Lawrence ^c   Bender, Chad F ^c   Botzer, Brandon ^c   Sigurdsson, Steinn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; INFRARED LASERS;

ECHELLE; ERBIUM FIBERS; HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPE; LASER FREQUENCY; MC-DONALD; MODE-LOCKED LASER; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROGRAPH; NEAR-IR LASERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; RADIAL VELOCITY; UNIFORM ARRAY;

CALIBRATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SOLID STATE LASER; SPECTROSCOPY; STANDARD;

ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; INFRARED RAYS; INTERNATIONALITY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84858983401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.006631     Document Type: Article

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