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Operation of an optically coherent frequency comb outside the metrology lab

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Laura C. Sinclair, Ian R. Coddington, William C. Swann, Archita Hati, Kana Iwakuni, Nathan R. Newbury

Abstract

Frequency combs can support cutting-edge measurements in areas that include optical clocks and oscillators, high-accuracy frequency and time transfer, precision spectroscopy from the UV to THz regimes, high-accuracy LIDAR, precise microwave photonics, and the search for exoplanets. However, current high performance combs are restricted to the well-controlled optical lab, which greatly restricts their adoption to these and other applications. Here we demonstrate a self-referenced fiber frequency comb design that can operate outside of the laboratory. The frequency comb has residual optical linewidths of
Citation
Optics Express
Volume
22
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

fiber comb, frequency comb, precision measurement
Time and frequency metrology, Optical physics and communications and Time and frequency

Citation

Sinclair, L. , Coddington, I. , Swann, W. , Hati, A. , Iwakuni, K. and Newbury, N. (2014), Operation of an optically coherent frequency comb outside the metrology lab, Optics Express, [online], https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.006996 (Accessed October 6, 2025)

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Created March 13, 2014, Updated November 10, 2018
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