Measurement of the timing jitter and pulse energy fluctuation of a PLL regeneratively mode-locked fiber laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 548-550

  Yoshida, Eiji ^a   Nakazawa, Masataka ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS;

TIMING JITTER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032666616     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.759394     Document Type: Article

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