Noise characterization of a regeneratively mode-locked fiber ring laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 70-78

  Gupta, Kamal K ^a   Novak, Dalma ^a   Liu, Hai Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT;

JITTER; LASER STABILITY;

RING LASERS;

EID: 0033895863     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.817640     Document Type: Article

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