Ultra-low timing-jitter passively mode-locked fiber lasers for long-distance timing synchronization

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6389, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ilday, F O ^a,b   Winter, A ^c,d   Kim, J W ^b   Chen, J ^b   Schmuser P ^c   Schlarb, H ^d   Kartner F X ^b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fiber; Laser; Phase noise; Photonics; RF; Timing jitter; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL CABLES; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIMING JITTER;

PHASE-NOISE; PHOTONICS; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33751285450     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.687364     Document Type: Conference Paper

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