Self-referenceable frequency comb from an ultrafast thin disk laser

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 9650-9656

  Saraceno, Clara J ^a   Pekarek, Selina ^a   Heckl, Oliver H ^a   Baer, Cyrill R E ^a   Schriber, Cinia ^a   Golling, Matthias ^a   Beil, Kolja ^b   Kränkel, Christian ^a,b   Huber, Günter ^b   Keller, Ursula ^a   Südmeyer, Thomas ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; YTTERBIUM;

AVERAGE POWER; BEAT SIGNALS; CARRIER ENVELOPE OFFSET FREQUENCIES; COMPACT SOURCES; FREQUENCY COMBS; GAIN MATERIALS; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH-POWER; HIGHLY NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; PUMP CURRENT; RESOLUTION BANDWIDTH; SUPERCONTINUUM; THIN-DISK LASERS; ULTRA-FAST;

DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; LASERS; MINIATURIZATION; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84861137900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.009650     Document Type: Article

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