A long-term frequency-stabilized erbium-fiber-laser-based optical frequency comb with an intra-cavity electro-optic modulator

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/24/6/064209

Abstract We demonstrate an optical frequency comb based on an erbium-doped-fiber femtosecond laser with the nonlinear polarization evolution scheme. The repetition rate of the laser is about 209 MHz. By controlling an intra-cavity electro-optic modulator and a piezo-transducer, the repetition rate can be stabilized with a high-bandwidth servo in a frequency range of 3 kHz, enabling long-term repetition rate phase-locking. The in-loop frequency stability of repetition rate is about 1.6× 10^-13 in an integration time of 1 s, limited by the measurement system; and it is inversely proportional to integration time in the short term. Furthermore, using a common path f–2f interferometer, the carrier envelope offset frequency of the comb is obtained with a signal-to-noise ratio of 40 dB in a 3-MHz resolution bandwidth. Stabilized carrier envelope offset frequency exhibits a deviation of 0.6 mHz in an integration time of 1 s.

Keywords: optical frequency comb fiber laser frequency stabilization frequency instability

Received: 13 October 2014
Revised: 26 November 2014
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PACS:	42.55.Wd	(Fiber lasers)
	42.62.Eh	(Metrological applications; optical frequency synthesizers for precision spectroscopy)
	42.65.Re	(Ultrafast processes; optical pulse generation and pulse compression)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91336101 and 61127901) and West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 2013ZD02).

Corresponding Authors: Jiang Hai-Feng
E-mail: haifeng.jiang@ntsc.ac.cn

About author: 42.55.Wd; 42.62.Eh; 42.65.Re

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Zhang Yan-Yan (张颜艳), Yan Lu-Lu (闫露露), Zhao Wen-Yu (赵文宇), Meng Sen (孟森), Fan Song-Tao (樊松涛), Zhang Long (张龙), Guo Wen-Ge (郭文阁), Zhang Shou-Gang (张首刚), Jiang Hai-Feng (姜海峰) A long-term frequency-stabilized erbium-fiber-laser-based optical frequency comb with an intra-cavity electro-optic modulator 2015 Chin. Phys. B 24 064209

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