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Operation of an optically coherent frequency comb outside the metrology lab

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Author(s)

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

Keywords

fiber comb, frequency comb, precision measurement

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 8, 2024)

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Created March 13, 2014, Updated November 10, 2018