Fiber-delay-line-referenced optical frequency combs: three stabilization schemes

Kai Wang; Haochen Tian; Fei Meng; Baike Lin; Shiying Cao; Yihan Pi; Yan Han; Zhanjun Fang; Youjian Song; Minglie Hu

doi:10.3788/COL202220.021204

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 20, Issue 2, 021204(2022)

Fiber-delay-line-referenced optical frequency combs: three stabilization schemes

Kai Wang¹, Haochen Tian^1、*, Fei Meng^2,3, Baike Lin², Shiying Cao², Yihan Pi¹, Yan Han^1,4, Zhanjun Fang², Youjian Song¹, and Minglie Hu¹

Author Affiliations

¹Ultrafast Laser Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Technical Science of Ministry of Education, School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

²Division of Time and Frequency Metrology, National Institute of Metrology, Beijing 100029, China

³Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication System and Networks, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

⁴College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China

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