A phase-stabilized carbon nanotube fiber laser frequency comb

被引：40

作者：

Lim, Jinkang ^{[1
]}

Knabe, Kevin ^{[1
]}

Tillman, Karl A. ^{[1
]}

Neely, William ^{[1
]}

Wang, Yishan ^{[1
,2
]}

Amezcua-Correa, Rodrigo ^{[3
]}

Couny, Francois ^{[3
]}

Light, Philip S. ^{[3
]}

Benabid, Fetah ^{[3
]}

Knight, Jonathan C. ^{[3
]}

Corwin, Kristan L. ^{[1
]}

Nicholson, Jeffrey W. ^{[4
]}

Washburn, Brian R. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Kansas State Univ, Dept Phys, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA

[2] Xian Inst Opt & Precis Mech, State Key Lab Transient Opt & Photon, Xian, Peoples R China

[3] Univ Bath, Dept Phys, Ctr Photon & Photon Mat, Bath BA2 7AY, Avon, England

[4] OFS Labs, Somerset, NJ 08873 USA

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2009年 / 17卷 / 16期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS; ALL-FIBER; NOISE; SPECTROSCOPY; METROLOGY; SYSTEM; ION;

D O I：

10.1364/OE.17.014115

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

A frequency comb generated by a 167 MHz repetition frequency erbium-doped fiber ring laser using a carbon nanotube saturable absorber is phase-stabilized for the first time. Measurements of the in-loop phase noise show an integrated phase error on the carrier envelope offset frequency of 0.35 radians. The carbon nanotube fiber laser comb is compared with a CW laser near 1533 nm stabilized to the v(1) + v(3) overtone transition in an acetylene-filled kagome photonic crystal fiber reference, while the CW laser is simultaneously compared to another frequency comb based on a Cr:Forsterite laser. These measurements demonstrate that the stability of a GPS-disciplined Rb clock is transferred to the comb, resulting in an upper limit on the locked comb's frequency instability of 1.2 x 10(-11) in 1 s, and a relative instability of < 3 x 10(-12) in 1 s. The carbon nanotube laser frequency comb offers much promise as a robust and inexpensive all-fiber frequency comb with potential for scaling to higher repetition frequencies. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：14115 / 14120

页数：6

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