Frequency comb generation using femtosecond pulses and cross-phase modulation in optical fiber at arbitrary center frequencies

Optics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 308-310

  Jones, David J ^a   Diddams, Scott A ^a   Taubman, Matthew S ^a   Cundiff, Steven T ^a   Ma, Long Sheng ^a   Hall, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FREQUENCIES; IODINE; LASER PULSES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PHASE MODULATION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0001177430     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.000308     Document Type: Article

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