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Precision locking CW laser to ultrastable optical frequency comb by feed-forward method

X. D. Shao, H. N. Han, Y. B. Su, H. B. Wang, Z. Y. Zhang, S. B. Fang, G. Q. Chang, Z. Y. Wei

AIP Advances· Volume 9· Issue 11
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Abstract

We locked a 1064 nm continuous wave (CW) laser to a Yb:fiber optical frequency comb stabilized to an ultrastable 972 nm CW laser with the feed-forward method. Consequently, the stability and coherent properties of the ultrastable laser are precisely transferred to the 1064 nm CW laser through the frequency comb’s connection. The relative linewidth of the frequency-stabilized 1064 nm CW laser is narrowed to 1.14 mHz, and the stability reaches 1.5 × 10−17/s at the optical wavelength of 1064 nm. The phase noise characterization in the 1 mHz–10 MHz range is presented to indicate that feed-forward locking a CW laser to an ultrastable comb will offer a potential technique for many important applications, such as optical frequency synthesis and gravitational wave detection.
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies · Solid State Laser Technologies · Advanced Frequency and Time Standards

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Affiliations

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences 1 , Beijing 100190, China

University of Chinese Academy of Science 2 , Beijing 10049, China

School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering, Xidian University 3 , Xi’an 710071, China

Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory 4 , Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China

Funding

The Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences · Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of The National Natural Science Foundation of China

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