Exploiting shot noise correlations in the photodetection of ultrashort optical pulse trains

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 290-293

  Quinlan, F ^a   Fortier, T M ^a   Jiang, H ^a   Hati, A ^a   Nelson, C ^a   Fu, Y ^b   Campbell, J C ^b   Diddams, S A ^a  

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

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOISE CORRELATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTOCURRENT SHOT NOISE; PRECISION MEASUREMENT; SHOT-NOISE SPECTRUM; TIME VARYING SIGNAL; TIMING MEASUREMENT; ULTRA-SHORT OPTICAL PULSE TRAINS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

SHOT NOISE;

EID: 84875773074     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.33     Document Type: Article

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