Optical frequency standards and measurement

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 227-231

  Hall, John L ^a,b,c   Ye, Jun ^a,b,c  

^a University of Colorado   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Femtosecond (fs) lasers; Frequency synthesizers; Laser frequency control; Optical frequency comb; Optical frequency measurement; Stabilized lasers

Indexed keywords

FOURIER SPECTRUM; FRACTIONAL FREQUENCY STABILITY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; PHASE NOISE;

BANDWIDTH; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0038575777     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.810450     Document Type: Article

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