Demonstration of carrier envelope offset locking with low pulse energy

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 4706-4712

  Ishizawa, Atsushi ^a   Nishikawa, Tadashi ^a   Aozasa, Shinichi ^b   Mori, Atsushi ^b   Tadanaga, Osamu ^b   Asobe, Masaki ^b   Nakano, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; HARMONIC GENERATION; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CARRIER ENVELOPE OFFSET LOCKING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB; PULSE ENERGY; RIDGE WAVEGUIDE;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FIBER OPTICS; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ENERGY TRANSFER; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FIBER OPTICS; FILTRATION; LASERS; NIOBIUM; OXIDES; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 41649117069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.004706     Document Type: Article

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