Phase steps and resonator detuning measurements in microresonator frequency combs

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Del'Haye, Pascal ^a   Coillet, Aurélien ^a   Loh, William ^a   Beha, Katja ^a   Papp, Scott B ^a   Diddams, Scott A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITION;

COMB;

EID: 84955055378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6668     Document Type: Article

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