Monolithic CEO-stabilization scheme-based frequency comb from an octave-spanning laser

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/4/044205

Abstract

We demonstrate a carrier-envelope phase-stabilized octave-spanning oscillator based on the monolithic scheme. A wide output spectrum extending from 480 nm to 1050 nm was generated directly from an all-chirped mirror Ti:sapphire laser. After several improvements, the carrier-envelope offset (CEO) beat frequency accessed nearly 60 dB under a resolution of 100 kHz. Using a feedback system with 50-kHz bandwidth, we compressed the residual phase noise to 55 mrad (integrated from 1 Hz to 1 MHz) for the stabilized CEO, corresponding to 23-as timing jitter at the central wavelength of 790 nm. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the smallest timing jitter achieved among the existing octave-spanning laser based frequency combs.

Keywords: octave-spanning laser optical frequency comb carrier-envelope offset low phase noise

Received: 18 November 2015
Revised: 01 December 2015
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PACS:	42.55.-f	(Lasers)
	42.62.Eh	(Metrological applications; optical frequency synthesizers for precision spectroscopy)
	42.65.Re	(Ultrafast processes; optical pulse generation and pulse compression)
	42.62.Fi	(Laser spectroscopy)

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Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB821304) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11078022 and 61378040).

Corresponding Authors: Hai-Nian Han, Zhi-Yi Wei
E-mail: hnhan@iphy.ac.cn;zywei@iphy.ac.cn

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Zi-Jiao Yu(于子蛟), Hai-Nian Han(韩海年), Yang Xie(谢阳), Hao Teng(滕浩), Zhao-Hua Wang(王兆华), Zhi-Yi Wei(魏志义) Monolithic CEO-stabilization scheme-based frequency comb from an octave-spanning laser 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 044205

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