Investigation of preparation and phase noise of Raman laser based on optical phase-locked loop

Lei CAO; Sibing LU; Kai WANG; Zhanwei YAO; Runbing LI; Jin WANG; Mingsheng ZHAN

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1007-5461. 2018.04.003

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