Spectral measurement of the noise in continuous-wave mode-locked laser pulses

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1817-1825

  Chen, Li Ping ^b,c,d   Wang, Yong ^b   Liu, Jia Ming ^{a,b,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k}  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^h VERIZON   (United States)

ⁱ University of California   (United States)

^j Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society

^k Sigma Xi ^*

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

AMPLITUDE FLUCTUATION; CROSS CORRELATION; OPTICAL PULSE TRAIN; PULSE TIMING JITTER; PULSEWIDTH FLUCTUATION; SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EID: 0030269778     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.538789     Document Type: Article

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