Generation of a superstable Lorentzian pulse train with a high repetition frequency based on a Fabry-Perot resonator integrated with an electro-optic phase modulator

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1263-1269

  Kato, Masao ^a   Fujiura, Kazuo ^a   Kurihara, Takashi ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCIES; LASER MODE LOCKING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ELECTRO-OPTIC PHASE MODULATOR (EOM); OPTICAL PULSES; PHASE MODULATORS; PULSE TRAINS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 14844304660     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001263     Document Type: Article

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