Miniaturized Tunable External Cavity Diode Laser with Single-Mode Operation and a Narrow Linewidth at 633 nm

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 1676-1678

  Bawamia, Ahmad Ibrahim ^a   Blume, Gunnar ^a   Eppich, Bernd ^a   Ginolas, Arnim ^a   Spießerger, Stefan ^a   Thomas, Madlen ^a   Sumpf, Bernd ^a   Erbert, Götz ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absolute distance interferometry; external cavity diode laser (ECDL); micro optical bench; tunable diode laser

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008020471     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2166382     Document Type: Article

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