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High-performance, vibration-immune, fiber-laser frequency comb
Published
Author(s)
Esther Baumann, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Jeffrey W. Nicholson, William C. Swann, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury
Abstract
We demonstrate an environmentally robust optical frequency comb based on a polarization-maintaining, allfiber, figure-eight laser. The comb is phase locked to a cavity-stabilized cw laser by use of an intracavity electro-optic phase modulator yielding 1.6 MHz feedback bandwidth. This high bandwidth provides close to shot-noise-limited residual phase noise between the comb and cw reference laser of −94 dBc/Hz from 20 Hz to 200 kHz and an integrated in-loop phase noise of 32 mrad from 1 Hz to 1 MHz. Moreover, the comb remains phase locked under significant mechanical vibrations of over 1 g. This level of environmental robustness is an important step toward a fieldable fiber frequency comb.
Baumann, E.
, Giorgetta, F.
, Nicholson, J.
, Swann, W.
, Coddington, I.
and Newbury, N.
(2009),
High-performance, vibration-immune, fiber-laser frequency comb, Optics Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=900877
(Accessed October 12, 2025)