CW dual-frequency MOPA laser with frequency separation of 45 GHz

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 9881-9889

  Hu, Miao ^a,b   Zheng, Yaoyuan ^a   Cai, Ju ^c   Zhang, Guiju ^d   Li, Qiliang ^a   Zhou, Xuefang ^a   Wei, Yizhen ^a   Lu, Yang ^a  

^a HANGZHOU DIANZI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER RESONATORS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; WAVE POWER;

DOUBLE END-PUMPED; DUAL FREQUENCY; DUAL-FREQUENCY LASERS; FREQUENCY SEPARATION; GHZ FREQUENCIES; LASER AMPLIFIERS; MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIER LASERS; TEMPERATURE TUNING;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 84937891732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.009881     Document Type: Article

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