Optical-clock local-oscillator stabilization scheme

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 714-717

  Letchumanan, Valliappan ^a   Gill, Patrick ^a   Sinclair, Alastair G ^a   Riis, Erling ^b  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHASE MODULATION;

LOCAL-OSCILLATOR STABILIZATION; OPTICAL-CLOCK STABILIZATION;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33744819712     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.000714     Document Type: Article

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