Frequency measurement of acetylene-stabilized lasers using a femtosecond optical comb without carrier-envelope offset frequency control

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1958-1965

  Jiang, Jie ^a   Onae, Atsushi ^a   Matsumoto, Hirokazu ^a   Hong, Feng Lei ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; DOPPLER EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; TELECOMMUNICATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

FREQUENCY SCATTER; LASER SERVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTH; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 17444388049     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001958     Document Type: Article

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