Carrier-envelope phase dynamics and noise analysis in octave-spanning Ti:sapphire lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2497-2511

  Matos, Lia ^a   Mücke, Oliver D ^b   Chen, Jian ^b   Kärtner, Franz X ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY CONTROL; FEEDBACK; SAPPHIRE; STABILIZATION;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE DYNAMICS; NOISE ANALYSIS; OCTAVE-SPANNING FREQUENCY COMB; OCTAVE-SPANNING TI:SAPPHIRE LASERS; PUMP LASER; RESIDUAL CARRIER-ENVELOPE;

LASERS;

EID: 33645082230     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002497     Document Type: Article

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