Electro-optically tunable microwave source based on composite-cavity microchip laser

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 29090-29095

  Qiao, Yunfei ^a   Zheng, Shilie ^a   Chi, Hao ^a   Jin, Xiaofeng ^a   Zhang, Xianmin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASERS; POLARIZATION; TUNING;

DIODE-PUMPED; ELECTRIC TUNING; ELECTRO-OPTICAL; HIGH SPEED PHOTODETECTORS; INTRACAVITIES; MICROCHIP LASERS; MICROWAVE SOURCES; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; POLARIZATION MODES; TUNABLE FREQUENCY; TUNABLE MICROWAVE;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LASER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MICROWAVES; MINIATURIZATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84872047671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.029090     Document Type: Article

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