Offset frequency dynamics and phase noise properties of a self-referenced 10 GHz Ti:sapphire frequency comb

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 18440-18451

  Heinecke, Dirk C ^a,b   Bartels, Albrecht ^c   Diddams, Scott A ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c Gigaoptics GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE NOISE; PUMPS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SAPPHIRE;

AMPLITUDE NOISE; BROADENED SPECTRA; CARRIER-ENVELOPE; FEMTOSECONDS; FREQUENCY COMBS; FULL CONTROL; GHZ FREQUENCIES; LONG TERM STABILITY; LOW-PHASE-NOISE; MICRO-STRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL FIBER; OCTAVE-SPANNING SPECTRA; OFFSET FREQUENCIES; PEAK POWER; PHASE-NOISE PROPERTIES; PULSE TRAIN; PUMP POWER; PUMP SOURCES; REPETITION RATE; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER; TI:SAPPHIRE;

STABILIZATION;

EID: 80052742716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.018440     Document Type: Article

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