Optical frequency synthesizer with femtosecond mode-locked laser with zero carrier-offset frequency

Seong Tae Park; Eok Bong Kim; Jin Yong Yeom; Tai Hyun Yoon

Optical frequency synthesizer with femtosecond mode-locked laser with zero carrier-offset frequency

Seong Tae Park, Eok Bong Kim, Jin Yong Yeom, Tai Hyun Yoon

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Abstract

We report the experimental details of an optical frequency synthesizer based on a frequency-stabilized femtosecond mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser for absolute optical frequency measurement. The repetition rate f_rep of the system is 100 MHz and is phase-locked to a Cs atomic clock, and the carrier-envelop-offset (CEO) frequency is phase-locked to a subharmonic of f_rep (actually to zero) by using a self-referencing technique. As a result, we have established a phase coherent link between a microwave frequency standard and the nth mode of an optical frequency comb by the relation f_n = nf_rep, where n is an integer. Absolute optical frequency measurements should be straightforward using this new optical frequency synthesizer.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	622-626
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of the Korean Physical Society
Volume	42
Issue number	5
Publication status	Published - 2003 May
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Carrier-offset phase stabilization
Femtosecond mode-locked laser
Optical comb
Optical frequency synthesizer

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General Physics and Astronomy

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Optical frequency synthesizer with femtosecond mode-locked laser with zero carrier-offset frequency

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