Solid-state carrier-envelope-phase noise measurements with intrinsically balanced detection

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 4255-4260

  Roos, Peter A ^a   Li, Xiaoqin ^a   Pipis, Jessica A ^a   Cundiff, Steven T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASER MODE LOCKING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTODETECTORS; PROBABILITY; SAPPHIRE; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; TITANIUM;

COHERENT OPTICAL EFFECTS; NOISE DENSITY; SEMICONDUCTOR NONLINEAR OPTICS INCLUDING MQW; ULTRAFAST MEASUREMENTS;

PHASE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 6344254968     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004255     Document Type: Article

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