Highly Phase Stable Mode-locked Lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1002-1010

  Fortier, Tara M ^a   Jones, David J ^a   Ye, Jun ^a   Cundiff, S T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier envelope phase stabilization; Mode locked lasers; Phase noise

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ATOMIC CLOCKS; BANDWIDTH; FEEDBACK; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE STABILIZATION; MODE-LOCKED LASERS; OCTAVE SPANNING SPECTRUM; PHASE COHERENCE TIME; PHASE NOISE;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 0346907026     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.819110     Document Type: Article

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