Development of femtosecond optical frequency combs for optical frequency standards in NICT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6389, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Nagano, Shigeo ^a   Ito, Hiroyuki ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Matsubara, Kensuke ^a   Hosokawa, Mizuhiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Femtosecond mode locked laser; Optical frequency comb; Optical frequency standard

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RESONANCE; STANDARDS;

FEMTOSECOND MODE-LOCKED LASER; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB; OPTICAL FREQUENCY STANDARD;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33751284956     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.685689     Document Type: Conference Paper

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