Control of the frequency comb from a modelocked Erbium-doped fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 1404-1410

  Rauschenberger, Jens ^a,b   Fortier, Tara M ^a   Jones, David J ^a   Ye, Jun ^c   Cundiff, Steven T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; FREQUENCIES; JITTER; LASER MODE LOCKING; OPTICAL PUMPING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY SYNTHESIS; OPTICAL SIGNAL GENERATORS; PULSED FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0037528436     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.001404     Document Type: Article

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