Title :
Tunable blue astro-comb
Author :
Chang, Guoqing ; Benedick, Andrew J. ; Birge, Jonathan R. ; Glenday, Alexander ; Li, Chih-Hao ; Phillips, David F. ; Walsworth, Ronald L. ; Kartner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
We developed a tunable, visible frequency comb near 420nm with 22GHz mode spacing and 20nm spectral width, which is able to calibrate astronomical spectrographs to search Earth-like exoplanets orbiting around stars similar to the Sun.
Keywords :
Bandwidth; Calibration; Filtering; Frequency; Laser tuning; Mirrors; Optical filters; Sun; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
