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Chin. Phys. B, 2014, Vol. 23(12): 124206    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/23/12/124206
ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, HEAT TRANSFER, CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND FLUID DYNAMICS Prev   Next  

Pump-induced carrier envelope offset frequency dynamics and stabilization of an Yb-doped fiber frequency comb

Zhao Jian (赵健), Li Wen-Xue (李文雪), Yang Kang-Wen (杨康文), Shen Xu-Ling (沈旭玲), Bai Dong-Bi (白东碧), Chen Xiu-Liang (陈修亮), Zeng He-Ping (曾和平)
State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
Abstract  

In this paper, we demonstrate a carrier envelope phase-stabilized Yb-doped fiber frequency comb seeding by a nonlinear-polarization-evolution (NPE) mode-locked laser at a repetition rate of 60 MHz with a pulse duration of 191 fs. The pump-induced carrier envelope offset frequency (f0) nonlinear tuning is discussed and further explained by the spectrum shift of the laser pulse. Through the environmental noise suppression, the drift of the free-running f0 is reduced down to less than 3 MHz within an hour. By feedback control on the pump power with a self-made phase-lock loop (PLL) electronics the carrier envelope offset frequency is well phase-locked with a frequency jitter of 85 mHz within an hour.

Keywords:  optical frequency comb      phase-locked loop      mode locking      fiber laser  
Received:  07 May 2014      Revised:  30 June 2014      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  42.55.Wd (Fiber lasers)  
  06.60.Jn (High-speed techniques)  
  42.65.-k (Nonlinear optics)  
  42.62.Eh (Metrological applications; optical frequency synthesizers for precision spectroscopy)  
Fund: 

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11274115), the National Key Project for Basic Research, China (Grant No. 2011CB808105), and the National Key Scientific Instrument Project, China (Grant No. 2012YQ150092).

Corresponding Authors:  Li Wen-Xue     E-mail:  wxli@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

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Zhao Jian (赵健), Li Wen-Xue (李文雪), Yang Kang-Wen (杨康文), Shen Xu-Ling (沈旭玲), Bai Dong-Bi (白东碧), Chen Xiu-Liang (陈修亮), Zeng He-Ping (曾和平) Pump-induced carrier envelope offset frequency dynamics and stabilization of an Yb-doped fiber frequency comb 2014 Chin. Phys. B 23 124206

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