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Highly stable, frequency-controlled mode-locked erbium fiber laser comb

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A mode-locked Er:fiber laser-based optical frequency comb with high stability in the repetition frequency and carrier-envelope offset (CEO) frequency is realized. The CEO beat signal was detected right after the supercontinuum generation by a compact single-beam f–2f self-referencing interferometer, which does not require further delay compensation. The stabilized repetition frequency has an out-of-loop tracking stability of 1.3×10-13/\(\sqrt{\tau}\) for an integration time τ less than 1000 s, which is limited by the stability of the frequency measurement system. The stabilized CEO frequency has a residual fluctuation of 0.52 mHz measured with a 1 s gate time. This is, to our knowledge, the highest tracking stability realized for fiber laser-based optical frequency comb.

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  1. Center for Measurement Standards, 321, Section 2, Kuang Fu Road, Hsinchu, 30042, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    J.-L. Peng, R.-H. Shu & H.-C. Chui

  2. Department of Photonics and Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Road, Hsinchu, 30010, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    H. Ahn

  3. OFS Laboratories, 19 Schoolhouse Road, Somerset, NJ, 08873, USA

    J.W. Nicholson

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Peng, JL., Ahn, H., Shu, RH. et al. Highly stable, frequency-controlled mode-locked erbium fiber laser comb. Appl. Phys. B 86, 49–53 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-006-2476-7

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