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^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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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