A New Method to Determine the Absolute Mode Number of a Mode-Locked Femtosecond-Laser Comb Used for Absolute Optical Frequency Measurements

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1066-1071

  Ma, Long Sheng ^a,b   Zucco, Massimo ^a,c   Picard, Susanne ^a   Robertsson, Lennart ^a   Windeler, Robert S ^d  

^a PAVILLON DE BRETEUIL   (France)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Istituto di Metrologia Gustavo Colonnetti   (Italy)

^d OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Comb component order; Femtosecond laser comb; He Ne; Mode locked; Nd:YAG; Optical frequency measurement

Indexed keywords

HELIUM NEON LASERS; IODINE; LASER MODE LOCKING; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

COMB COMPONENT ORDER; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; WAVELENGTH;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0347537779     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.819102     Document Type: Article

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