A semiconductor-based 10-GHz optical comb source with Sub 3-fs shot-noise-limited timing jitter and ∼500-Hz comb linewidth

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 431-433

  Ozdur, Ibrahim ^a   Akbulut, Mehmetcan ^a   Hoghooghi, Nazanin ^a   Mandridis, Dimitrios ^a   Ozharar, Sarper ^a,b   Quinlan, Franklyn ^a,c   Delfyett, Peter J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonic mode locking; Pound Drever Hall (pdh) technique; Supermode noise

Indexed keywords

COMB SOURCE; HARMONIC MODE LOCKING; INTRACAVITIES; MODE-LOCKED LASER; NYQUIST; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; OPTICAL LINEWIDTH; POUND-DREVER-HALL; SUPERMODE NOISE;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

TIMING JITTER;

EID: 77955433278     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2040980     Document Type: Article

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