Timing jitter optimization of mode-locked Yb-fiber lasers toward the attosecond regime

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 14518-14525

  Song, Youjian ^a   Kim, Chur ^a   Jung, Kwangyun ^a   Kim, Hyoji ^a   Kim, Jungwon ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PULSE REPETITION RATE; TIMING JITTER; YTTERBIUM;

ATTOSECONDS; CENTER WAVELENGTH; CROSS CORRELATION METHODS; INTRA-CAVITY DISPERSION; MODE-LOCKED; MODELOCKING; NYQUIST FREQUENCY; OFFSET FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL PULSE TRAIN; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE; REPETITION RATE; YB FIBER LASERS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 79960523605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.014518     Document Type: Article

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