Direct frequency comb synthesis with arbitrary offset and shot-noise-limited phase noise

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 462-465

  Koke, Sebastian ^a   Grebing, Christian ^a   Frei, Harald ^b   Anderson, Alexandria ^b   Assion, Andreas ^b   Steinmeyer, Günter ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b FEMTOLASERS PRODUKTIONS GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE STABILIZATIONS; FEEDBACK APPROACH; FREQUENCY COMBS; FREQUENCY METROLOGY; LASER PERFORMANCE; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; PHASE STABILIZATION; PULSE GENERATION;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; TIMING JITTER; TRANSIENTS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

STABILIZATION;

EID: 77954395266     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.91     Document Type: Article

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