Compact, Ti:sapphire based methane-stabilized optical molecular frequency comb and clock
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Tyurikov, Dmitry
Shewmon, Ruth
Benedick, Andrew J.
Kaertner, Franz X.
Gubin, Mikhail
Chuang, Isaac L.
Alternative Title
Compact, Ti:sapphire-based, methane-stabilized optical molecular frequency comb and clock
Date Issued
July 2009
Journal
Optics Letters
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Optical Society of America
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Andrew Benedick, Dmitry Tyurikov, Mikhail Gubin, Ruth Shewmon, Issac Chuang, and Franz X. Kärtner, "Compact, Ti:sapphire-based, methane-stabilized optical molecular frequency comb and clock," Opt. Lett. 34, 2168-2170 (2009)
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Abstract
A compact optical clock and frequency comb system is presented, based on a 1 GHz
octave spanning Ti:sapphire laser referenced to the F2[superscript(2)](P(7),v[subscript 3]) optical transition in methane at 3.39 μm. The reference methane transition is accessed by a stabilized HeNe laser in a compact transportable format. The output from the octave spanning Ti:sapphire laser is used to generate a mid-IR comb at the reference wavelength 3.39 μm. Direct comparison of the stabilized optical frequency comb with a ULE cavity stabilized diode laser at 674 nm shows an Allan Deviation of the frequency comb of 3x10[superscript -14] in 20 s.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.34.002168
