Understanding Pound-Drever-Hall locking using voltage controlled radio-frequency oscillators: An undergraduate experiment

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 232-239

  Liekhus Schmaltz, C E ^a   Martin, J D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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EID: 84863115496     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.3671074     Document Type: Article

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