Analysis of the temporal coherence function of a femtosecond optical frequency comb

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7011-7018

  Wei, Dong ^a   Takahashi, Satoru ^a   Takamasu, Kiyoshi ^a   Matsumoto, Hirokazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

FEMTOSECONDS; FIELD EQUATION; MODIFIED MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS; PULSE TRAIN; TEMPORAL COHERENCE; THEORETICAL DERIVATIONS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66549102839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007011     Document Type: Article

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