Frequency measurement capability of a fiber-based frequency comb at 633 nm

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1234-1240

  Inaba, Hajime ^a   Nakajima, Yoshiaki ^a   Hong, Feng Lei ^a   Minoshima, Kaoru ^a,b   Ishikawa, Jun ^a   Onae, Atsushi ^a   Matsumoto, Hirokazu ^a,c   Wouters, Michael ^d   Warrington, Bruce ^d   Brown, Nicholas ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL MEASUREMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Frequency measurement; Frequency stability; Frequency synthesizers; Gas lasers; Optical fiber lasers

Indexed keywords

CORUNDUM; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCY STABILITY; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; GAS LASERS; IODINE; LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; TEXTILE FIBERS;

AUSTRALIA; FREQUENCY COMBS; FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; MODE NUMBERS; NATIONAL MEASUREMENT INSTITUTES; NATIONAL METROLOGY INSTITUTE OF JAPANS; OPTICAL FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCIES; STABILIZED LASERS; TI:SAPPHIRE;

FIBER LASERS;

FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY; GAS; IODINE; LASERS; MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; STABILITY; TEXTILE FIBERS;

EID: 63449107053     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.2008589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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