Timing jitter and phase noise of mode-locked fiber lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 5041-5054

  Paschotta, Rüdiger ^a  

^a RP Photonics Consulting GmbH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; TIMING JITTER;

BULK LASERS; LIMITING EFFECTS; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE PROPERTIES; PULSE FORMATION; QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCES; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; THEORETICAL ASPECTS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77749258438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005041     Document Type: Article

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