May 17, 2004
Author(s)
Long-Sheng Ma, Lennart Robertsson, Massimo Zucco, Zhiyi Bi, Robert Windeler, A Bartels, G Wilpers, Christopher W. Oates, Leo W. Hollberg, Scott Diddams
We compare the accuracy of femtosecond laser optical frequency synthesizers that employ microstructured fibers with those that directly generate a broadband output. No limitation of either system is found at fractional frequency levels of 1x10 -18.