Generation of ultra-narrow, stable and tunable millimeter- and terahertz-waves with very low phase noise

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 23950-23962

  Preußler, Stefan ^a   Wenzel, Norman ^a   Braun, Ralf Peter ^b   Owschimikow, Nina ^c   Vogel, Carlo ^c   Deninger, Anselm ^d   Zadok, Avi ^e   Woggon, Ulrike ^c   Schneider, Thomas ^a  

^a Hochschule fur Telekommunikation   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d TOPTICA PHOTONICS AG   (Germany)

^e BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; MILLIMETER WAVES; PHASE NOISE; POLARIZATION; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; TELECOMMUNICATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; FREE-SPACE TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL TELECOMMUNICATION; POLARIZATION DISCRIMINATION; SPECTRAL QUALITY; STANDARD EQUIPMENTS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING (SBS);

TERAHERTZ WAVE DETECTORS;

EID: 84885460270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.023950     Document Type: Article

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