Effect of the carrier-envelope-offset dynamics on the stabilization of a diode-pumped solid-state frequency comb

N Bucalovic1, V Dolgovskiy, M C Stumpf

  • 1Laboratoire Temps-Fréquence, Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. nikola.bucalovic@unine.ch

Optics Letters
|November 2, 2012
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