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Characterizing arbitrary CW waveforms with 1500 THz/s chirp rates

Published

Author(s)

Ian R. Coddington, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury

Abstract

A Dual frequency comb interferometer was constructed to monitor cw laser chirp rates exceeding 1500 THz/s with MHz level resolution and accuracy over a 3 THz spectral sweep. Monitoring of the chirped laser is continuous. Additionally, absolute frequency calibration, modulo 3 THz, is acquired automatically when the laser chirp rate drops below 150 GHz/s for longer than 300 υs.
Citation
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
Volume
online
Issue
99

Keywords

frequency combs, chirp modulation, laser tuning, metrology

Citation

Coddington, I. , Giorgetta, F. , Baumann, E. , Swann, W. and Newbury, N. (2011), Characterizing arbitrary CW waveforms with 1500 THz/s chirp rates, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=907300 (Accessed March 29, 2024)
Created April 5, 2011, Updated February 19, 2017