Study of the excess noise associated with demodulation of ultra-short infrared pulses

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1068-1074

  Ivanov, Eugene N ^a   Diddams, Scott A ^b   Hollberg, Leo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED FEMTOSECOND LASERS; PHASE NOISE; SPECTRAL DENSITY; ULTRA-SHORT LIGHT PULSES; FREQUENCY TRANSFER; INGAAS PHOTODETECTORS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; POWER FLUCTUATIONS; ULTRA-SHORT LIGHT PULSE;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTODETECTORS; DEMODULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTONS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SPECTRAL DENSITY; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; PHASE NOISE;

EID: 24944456052     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1503992     Document Type: Article

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