Optical clockwork with an offset-free difference-frequency comb: Accuracy of sum- and difference-frequency generation

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 310-312

  Zimmermann, Marcus ^a   Gohle, Christoph ^a   Holzwarth, Ronald ^a   Udem, Thomas ^a   Hänsch, Theodor W ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY COMB; DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY GENERATION; FEMTOSECOND LASER; NONLINEAR CRYSTAL; OPTICAL CLOCKWORK;

CRYSTALS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER BEAMS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; RING LASERS; STABILITY; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0842278845     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.000310     Document Type: Article

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