Experimental study of noise properties of a Ti:Sapphire femtosecond laser

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 355-360

  Ivanov, Eugene N ^a   Diddams, Scott A ^b   Hollberg, Leo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; FREQUENCY STABILITY; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER RESONATORS; MIRRORS; PHOTODETECTORS; PRISMS; SHOT NOISE; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FEMTOSECOND LASER; PULSE REPETITION RATE; TITANIUM SAPPHIRE LASER;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0038487402     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2003.1197957     Document Type: Article

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