Timing jitter measurement of transmitted laser pulse relative to the reference using type II second harmonic generation in two nonlinear crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 19102-19112

  Xuelian, Ma ^a   Liu, Lu ^a   Tang, Junxiong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHASE MATCHING; TIME DELAY; TIMING CIRCUITS; TIMING JITTER;

FUNDAMENTAL PULSE; MEASURING PERFORMANCE; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SECOND HARMONIC SIGNALS; TIMING JITTER MEASUREMENTS; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; TRANSMITTED PULSE;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 70350334154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019102     Document Type: Article

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