A Novel stabilization method for an optical frequency comb generator

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 574-577

  Sterr, Uwe ^a   Lipphardt, Burghard ^a   Wolf, Andreas ^a   Telle, H R ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical frequency conversion; Optical frequency measurements; Optical modulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038013188     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.769661     Document Type: Article

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