Design and Control of Femtosecond Lasers for Optical Clocks and the Synthesis of Low-Noise Optical and Microwave Signals

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1072-1080

  Diddams, Scott A ^a   Bartels, Albrecht ^a   Ramond, Tanya M ^a   Oates, Chris W ^a   Bize, S ^a,b   Curtis, E A ^a   Bergquist, J C ^a   Hollberg, Leo ^a  

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

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Frequency metrology; Frequency synthesis; Optical clocks; Ultrafast optics and lasers

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

FEMTOSECOND LASERS; FREQUENCY METROLOGY; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIS; OPTICAL CLOCKS; PHASE NOISE;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0347537775     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.819096     Document Type: Article

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