Coherence of pulsed microwave signals carried by two-frequency solid-state lasers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3037-3042

  Lai, Ngoc Diep ^a   Bretenaker, Fabien ^b   Brunel, Marc ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UMR 6627 du CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE GENERATION; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHING; RELAXATION OSCILLATORS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

COHERENCE THEORY; LONG PULSE OPERATION; PHOTON STATISTICS; TWO FREQUENCY LASERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 1642584309     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.820045     Document Type: Article

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