Optical frequency comb with submillihertz linewidth and more than 10 W average power

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 355-359

  Schibli, T R ^a   Hartl, I ^b   Yost, D C ^a   Martin, M J ^a   Marcinkeviius A ^b   Fermann, M E ^b   Ye, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b IMRA AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCEMENT CAVITIES; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET; GENERATION EXPERIMENTS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; HIGH-POWER SYSTEMS; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS; PRECISION MEASUREMENT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SAPPHIRE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TITANIUM;

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EID: 44849135901     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.79     Document Type: Article

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