10 kHz accuracy of an optical frequency reference based on 12C2H2-filled large-core kagome photonic crystal fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 16017-16026

  Knabe, Kevin ^a   Wu, Shun ^a   Lim, Jinkang ^a   Tillman, Karl A ^a   Light, Philip S ^b   Couny, Francois ^b   Wheeler, Natalie ^b   Thapa, Rajesh ^a   Jones, Andrew M ^a   Nicholson, Jeffrey W ^c   Washburn, Brian R ^a   Benabid, Fetah ^b   Corwin, Kristan L ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; YARN;

ABSOLUTE FREQUENCY; CR : FORSTERITE LASER; FRACTIONAL FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; HOLLOW CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; OPTICAL FREQUENCY REFERENCES; SATURATED-ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 69949095823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.016017     Document Type: Article

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