Concepedia

Laser synthesizer of the ALMA telescope: Design and performance

S. Ayotte, A. Babin, P. Poulin, Michel Poulin, Amelie Jeanneau, M.-J. Picard, D. Poulin, Charles-André Davidson, M. Aubé, Isabelle Alexandre,

2010 · 20 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

The Laser Synthesizer of the Atacama Large Millimiter Array telescope in Chile has been designed and built by TeraXion. We present the design and performance achieved with this instrument.

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Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)

A. Wootten · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2003 · 70 citations · Full text

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A 100-GHz-tunable photonic millimeter wave synthesizer for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array radiotelescope

Jean-François Cliche, Bill Shillue, M. Têtu et al. · IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium digest · 2007 · 37 citations

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A high-coherence high-stability laser for the photonic local oscillator distribution of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array

Jean-François Cliche, Bill Shillue, C. Latrasse et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2004 · 26 citations

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Photonic techniques for local oscillator generation and distribution in millimeter-wave radio astronomy

Payne, Bill Shillue · 2002 · 22 citations

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