Ultrabroadband coherent supercontinuum frequency comb

被引：64

作者：

Ruehl, Axel ^{[1
]}

Martin, Michael J. ^{[2
,3
]}

Cossel, Kevin C. ^{[2
,3
]}

Chen, Lisheng ^{[2
,3
]}

McKay, Hugh ^{[1
]}

Thomas, Brian ^{[1
]}

Benko, Craig ^{[2
,3
]}

Dong, Liang ^{[1
]}

Dudley, John M. ^{[4
]}

Fermann, Martin E. ^{[1
]}

Hartl, Ingmar ^{[1
]}

Ye, Jun ^{[2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] IMRA Amer Inc, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 USA

[2] NIST, JILA, Boulder, CO 80309 USA

[3] Univ Colorado, Dept Phys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA

[4] Univ Franche Comte, CNRS, UMR 6174, Inst FEMTO ST, F-25030 Besancon, France

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 2011年 / 84卷 / 01期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; NOISE; GENERATION; LASER; STABILIZATION; CONTINUUM; LOCKING;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevA.84.011806

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We present detailed studies of the coherence properties of an ultrabroadband supercontinuum, enabled by a comprehensive approach involving continuous-wave laser sources to independently probe both the amplitude and phase noise quadratures across the entire spectrum. The continuum coherently spans more than 1.5 octaves, supporting Hz-level comparison of ultrastable lasers at 698 nm and 1.54 mu m. We present a complete numerical simulation of the accumulated comb coherence in the limit of many pulses, in contrast to the single-pulse level, with systematic experimental verification. The experiment and numerical simulations reveal the presence of quantum-seeded broadband amplitude noise without phase coherence degradation, including the discovery of a dependence of the supercontinuum coherence on the fiber fractional Raman gain.

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