Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 61, Issue 13, 1306010(2024)

Frequency-Agile Electro-Optic Comb with Suppressed Phase Noise

Hui Ma1,2, Zijian Wang1,2, Jinman Ge3、*, Xiaojun Li3, Xinyi Ren1,2, Zhuoren Wan1,2, Tingting Liu1,2, and Ming Yan1,2、**
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  • 2Chongqing Key Laboratory of Precision Optics, Chongqing Institute of East China Normal University, Chongqing 401120, China
  • 3National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Space Microwave, Xi'an 710100, Shaanxi , China
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    In this paper, we report on a single-modulator electro-optic frequency comb whose repetition frequency can be modulated at high speed with a modulation rate of 1 MHz. With spectral broadening in a nonlinear fiber, a comb spectrum spanning 1.25 THz (10 nm, the central wavelength is 1550 nm) with 4800 narrow-linewidth combs separated by 260 MHz is achieved. The optical comb pulse width is compressed to 260 fs by dispersion compensation in a single-mode fiber. Also, the impacts of optical fiber amplification and nonlinear spectral broadening on the comb coherence are studied, and the common-mode phase noise of the comb is suppressed by a feedforward method based on the acousto-optic modulator. The developed electro-optic comb has promising applications for molecular spectroscopy and interferometric ranging.

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    Hui Ma, Zijian Wang, Jinman Ge, Xiaojun Li, Xinyi Ren, Zhuoren Wan, Tingting Liu, Ming Yan. Frequency-Agile Electro-Optic Comb with Suppressed Phase Noise[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2024, 61(13): 1306010

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    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

    Received: Oct. 25, 2023

    Accepted: Nov. 7, 2023

    Published Online: Jul. 17, 2024

    The Author Email: Jinman Ge (gejm@cast504.com), Ming Yan (myan@lps.ecnu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP232371

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP232371

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