Remote distribution of a mode-locked pulse train with sub 40-as jitter

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 12134-12144

  Chen, Yi Fei ^a   Jiang, Jie ^a   Jones, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JITTER; MICROWAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ERROR SIGNALS; FREQUENCY REFERENCE; OPTICAL GENERATION;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 33845409338     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012134     Document Type: Article

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