20 years of developments in optical frequency comb technology and applications

T Fortier, E Baumann - Communications Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs were developed nearly two decades ago to support the world's
most precise atomic clocks. Acting as precision optical synthesizers, frequency combs …

Ultralow noise optical frequency combs

M Endo, TD Shoji, TR Schibli - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The invention of optical frequency combs (OFCs) based on femtosecond (fs) mode-locked
lasers has merged laser based spectroscopy with fs-laser technology. OFCs have triggered …

Infrared frequency comb generation and spectroscopy with suspended silicon nanophotonic waveguides

N Nader, A Kowligy, J Chiles, EJ Stanton, H Timmers… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Nanophotonic waveguides with sub-wavelength mode confinement and engineered
dispersion are an excellent platform for application-tailored nonlinear optical interactions at …

Tightly locked optical frequency comb from a semiconductor disk laser

D Waldburger, AS Mayer, CGE Alfieri, J Nürnberg… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers (SDLs) passively modelocked using semiconductor
saturable absorbers mirrors (SESAMs) generate optical frequency combs (OFCs) with …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling and experimental realization of modelocked VECSEL producing high power sub-100 fs pulses

A Laurain, I Kilen, J Hader, A Ruiz Perez… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A microscopic many-body theory driven design and optimization supports the experimental
demonstration of sub-100 fs pulse duration directly from a semiconductor laser. A passively …

Composite filtering effect in a SESAM mode-locked fiber laser with a 3.2-GHz fundamental repetition rate: switchable states from single soliton to pulse bunch

Y Zhou, W Lin, H Cheng, W Wang, T Qiao, Q Qian… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
States that are switchable from single soliton to pulse bunch in a compact semiconductor
saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) mode-locked fiber laser with a fundamental repetition …

Low-noise 750 MHz spaced ytterbium fiber frequency combs

Y Ma, B Xu, H Ishii, F Meng, Y Nakajima… - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate two low-noise 750 MHz ytterbium fiber frequency combs that are
independently stabilized to a continuous-wave laser. A bulk electro-optic modulator and a …

Sub-kHz-linewidth VECSELs for cold atom experiments

PH Moriya, Y Singh, K Bongs, JE Hastie - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We report and characterize sub-kHz linewidth operation of an AlGaInP-based VECSEL
system suitable for addressing the narrow cooling transition of neutral strontium atoms at …

Multipulse instabilities of a femtosecond SESAM-modelocked VECSEL

D Waldburger, CGE Alfieri, SM Link, S Meinecke… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Optically pumped passively modelocked vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers
(VECSELs) can generate pulses as short as 100 fs with an intracavity semiconductor …

Active f-to-2f interferometer for record-low jitter carrier-envelope phase locking

R Liao, H Tian, T Feng, Y Song, M Hu, G Steinmeyer - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The f-to-2f interferometer plays a key role for carrier-envelope phase (CEP) measurement
and subsequent stabilization. The CEP measurement typically relies on the application of …