Relative Carrier-Envelope-Offset Phase Control between Independent Femtosecond Light Sources

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1011-1017

  Kobayashi, Yohei ^a   Wei, Zhiyi ^b,c   Kakehata, Masayuki ^a   Takada, Hideyuki ^a   Torizuka, Kenji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b NEW ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Carrier envelope offset phase; Fourier synthesis; Optical frequency comb; Optical parametric oscillator; Ultrashort lasers

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FEEDBACK; INFRARED RADIATION; MODULATORS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHASE CONTROL; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNCHRONIZATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE-OFFSET PHASE; FOURIER SYNTHESIS; OPTICAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS; SUBHARMONIC PULSES; TUNNELING IONIZATION;

LASERS;

EID: 0348167561     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.819106     Document Type: Article

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