Fiber-laser-based frequency comb with a tunable repetition rate

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4999-5004

  Washburn, B R ^a   Fox, R W ^a   Newbury, N R ^a   Nicholson, J W ^b   Feder, K ^a,b   Westbrook, P S ^b   Jergensen, C G ^c  

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

^b OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c OFS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SOLITONS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

FIBER-LASER-BASED FREQUENCY COMB; LENGTH METROLOGY; TUNABLE REPETITION RATE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 9144231389     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004999     Document Type: Article

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