Synchronization of Ti: Sapphire and Cr:forsterite mode-locked lasers with 100-attosecond precision by optical-phase stabilization

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 551-556

  Yoshitomi, Dai ^a   Kobayashi, Yohei ^a   Kakehata, Masayuki ^a   Takada, Hideyuki ^a   Torizuka, Kenji ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; LASER MODE LOCKING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIMING JITTER; TITANIUM;

COLOR MODE-LOCKED LASERS; FORSTERITE; PHASE STABILIZATION; PULSE-TO-PULSE SLIPS;

SAPPHIRE;

EID: 33745501202     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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