A phase-stabilized carbon nanotube fiber laser frequency comb

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14115-14120

  Lim, Jinkang ^a   Knabe, Kevin ^a   Tillman, Karl A ^a   Neely, William ^a   Wang, Yishan ^a,b   Amezcua Correa, Rodrigo ^c   Couny, François ^c   Light, Philip S ^c   Benabid, Fetah ^c   Knight, Jonathan C ^c   Corwin, Kristan L ^a   Nicholson, Jeffrey W ^d   Washburn, Brian R ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^d OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHASE NOISE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; RING LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; YARN;

CARBON NANOTUBE FIBERS; CARRIER ENVELOPE OFFSET FREQUENCIES; CR : FORSTERITE LASER; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER RING LASERS; FREQUENCY INSTABILITIES; OVERTONE TRANSITION; RELATIVE INSTABILITY; REPETITION FREQUENCY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; FILTRATION; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 68349139552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014115     Document Type: Article

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