Phase locking of a continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator to an optical frequency comb for optical frequency synthesis

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 929-936

  Inaba, Hajime ^a   Ikegami, Takeshi ^a   Hong, Feng Lei ^a   Onae, Atsushi ^a   Koga, Yasuki ^a   Schibli, Thomas R ^a   Minoshima, Kaoru ^a   Matsumoto, Hirokazu ^a   Yamadori, Shinya ^b   Tohyama, Osamu ^b   Yamaguchi, Syun Ichiro ^b  

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

^b Mitsubishi Cable Industries Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CLOCKS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER TUNING; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PUMPING (LASER);

LASER STABILITY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY SYNTHESIS; PHASE LOCKED OSCILLATORS;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 3142745325     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.830211     Document Type: Article

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