Analysis of shot noise in the detection of ultrashort optical pulse trains

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1775-1786

  Quinlan, Franklyn ^a   Fortier, Tara M ^a   Jiang, Haifeng ^a   Diddams, Scott A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTODETECTORS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; TIMING JITTER;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN MODEL; MICROWAVE CARRIERS; ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; PHOTO DETECTION; QUANTUM LIMIT; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPECTRAL CORRELATION; ULTRA-SHORT OPTICAL PULSE TRAINS;

SHOT NOISE;

EID: 84878711155     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.30.001775     Document Type: Article

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