Noise characterization of sub-10-fs Ti:sapphire oscillators

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 179-184

  Poppe, Andreas ^b,c   Xu, Lin ^b,d,e,f   Krausz, Ferenc ^a,b,g,h   Spielmann, Christian ^b,i  

^a IEEE

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^h Technical University of Vienna ^*

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser noise; Laser stability; Mode locked lasers; Noise measurement; Pulsed lasers; Timing jitter

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT; OPTICS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STABILITY;

MODE-LOCKED LASERS; TIMING JITTER;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0032026222     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.686721     Document Type: Article

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