Carrier-envelope phase control of femtosecond mode-locked lasers and direct optical frequency synthesis

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5466, 2000, Pages 635-639

  Jones, David J ^a   Diddams, Scott A ^a   Ranka, Jinendra K ^b   Stentz, Andrew ^b   Windeler, Robert S ^b   Hall, John L ^a   Cundiff, Steven T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; LASER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE;

EID: 0034725026     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5466.635     Document Type: Article

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