Optical flywheels with attosecond jitter

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 97-100

  Benedick, Andrew J ^a   Fujimoto, James G ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a,b  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 85028124208     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.326     Document Type: Article

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