Injection locking of Raman laser beams in cold atom interferometers

Ling WANG; Zhan-wei YAO; Zong-yuan XIONG; Run-bing LI; Jin WANG; Ming-sheng ZHAN

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1007-5461. 2012.01.005

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