Fully stabilized optical frequency comb with sub-radian CEO phase noise from a SESAM-modelocked 1.5-μm solid-state laser

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 24171-24181

  Schilt, Stephane ^a   Bucalovic, Nikola ^a   Dolgovskiy, Vladimir ^a   Schori, Christian ^a   Stumpf, Max C ^a,b   Di Domenico, Gianni ^a   Pekarek, Selina ^b   Oehler, Andreas E H ^b   Südmeyer, Thomas ^b   Keller, Ursula ^b   Thomann, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHASE NOISE; SOLID STATE LASERS;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE; DIODE PUMPED SOLID STATE LASER; FEMTOSECONDS; FRACTIONAL FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY COMBS; HIGH Q FACTOR; LOW NOISE; MODE-LOCKED; NOISE PROPERTIES; OPTICAL CARRIER FREQUENCY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS; PHASE LOCK; REPETITION RATE; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; SPECTRAL REGION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ARTIFACTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; LASERS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 82055206339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024171     Document Type: Article

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