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Laser Frequency Stabilisation

Great Britain · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1983

Ronald William Prest DreverJune 1983

Pasadena · Science / Physics

Drever and collaborators publish the laser-stabilisation technique later known as Pound-Drever-Hall locking, providing exceptionally precise frequency control for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors.

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Ronald William Prest Drever

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