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Chin. Phys. B, 2020, Vol. 29(3): 030601    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ab696d
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An Yb-fiber frequency comb phase-locked to microwave standard and optical reference

Hui-Bo Wang(汪会波)1,2, Hai-Nian Han(韩海年)2,3, Zi-Yue Zhang(张子越)2,3, Xiao-Dong Shao(邵晓东)2,3, Jiang-Feng Zhu(朱江峰)1, Zhi-Yi Wei(魏志义)1,2,3
1 School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China;
2 Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
3 School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Abstract  We present a fully stabilized Yb-fiber frequency comb locked to a microwave standard and an optical reference separately. The carrier-envelope offset frequency is generated by a standard f-2f interferometer with 40 dB signal-to-noise ratio. The offset frequency and the repetition rate are stabilized simultaneously to the radio frequency reference for more than 30 hours, and the fractional Allan deviation of the comb is the same as the microwave standard of 10-12 at 1 s. Alternatively, the comb is locked to an ultra-stable optical reference at 972 nm using an intracavity electro-optic modulator, exhibiting a residual integrated phase noise of 458 mrad (1 Hz-10 MHz) and an in-loop tracking stability of 1.77×10-18 at 1 s, which is significantly raised by six orders comparing to the case locked to the microwave frequency standard.
Keywords:  Yb-fiber      frequency comb      low-noise      optical reference  
Received:  06 December 2019      Revised:  26 December 2019      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  06.20.-f (Metrology)  
Fund: Project supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. XDA1502040404 and XDB21010400) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91850209 and 11774234).
Corresponding Authors:  Hai-Nian Han     E-mail:  hnhan@iphy.ac.cn

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Hui-Bo Wang(汪会波), Hai-Nian Han(韩海年), Zi-Yue Zhang(张子越), Xiao-Dong Shao(邵晓东), Jiang-Feng Zhu(朱江峰), Zhi-Yi Wei(魏志义) An Yb-fiber frequency comb phase-locked to microwave standard and optical reference 2020 Chin. Phys. B 29 030601

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