Rb-87-stabilized 375-MHz Yb:fiber femtosecond frequency comb

Thomas C. Schratwieser; Karolis Balskus; Richard A. McCracken; Carl Farrell; Christopher G. Leburn; Zhaowei Zhang; Tobias P. Lamour; Teresa I. Ferreiro; Alireza Marandi; Aidan S. Arnold; Derryck T. Reid

doi:10.1364/OE.22.010494

Rb-87-stabilized 375-MHz Yb:fiber femtosecond frequency comb

Thomas C. Schratwieser, Karolis Balskus, Richard A. McCracken, Carl Farrell, Christopher G. Leburn, Zhaowei Zhang, Tobias P. Lamour, Teresa I. Ferreiro, Alireza Marandi, Aidan S. Arnold, Derryck T. Reid^*

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We report a fully stabilized 1030-nm Yb-fiber frequency comb operating at a pulse repetition frequency of 375 MHz. The comb spacing was referenced to a Rb-stabilized microwave synthesizer and the comb offset was stabilized by generating a super-continuum containing a coherent component at 780.2 nm which was heterodyned with a Rb-87-stabilized external cavity diode laser to produce a radio-frequency beat used to actuate the carrier-envelope offset frequency of the Yb-fiber laser. The two-sample frequency deviation of the locked comb was 235 kHz for an averaging time of 50 seconds, and the comb remained locked for over 60 minutes with a root mean squared deviation of 236 kHz. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	10494-10499
Number of pages	6
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	22
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.010494
Publication status	Published - 5 May 2014

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RING LASER

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Rb-87-stabilized 375-MHz Yb:fiber femtosecond frequency comb

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