Frequency stabilization of an Er-doped fiber laser with a collinear 2f-to-3f self-referencing interferometer

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作者
Hitachi, K. [1 ]
Ishizawa, A. [1 ]
Tadanaga, O. [2 ]
Nishikawa, T. [3 ]
Mashiko, H. [1 ]
Sogawa, T. [1 ]
Gotoh, H. [1 ]
机构
[1] NTT Corp, NTT Basic Res Labs, Atsugi, Kanagawa 2430198, Japan
[2] NTT Corp, NTT Device Technol Labs, Atsugi, Kanagawa 2430198, Japan
[3] Tokyo Denki Univ, Adachi Ku, Tokyo 1208551, Japan
关键词
ENVELOPE OFFSET FREQUENCY; RIDGE-WAVE-GUIDE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE COHERENCE; COMB GENERATION; NOBEL LECTURE; PULSES;
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10.1063/1.4922553
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O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要
We report the stabilization of the carrier-envelope offset (CEO) frequency of an Er-doped fiber laser with a collinear 2f-to-3f self-referencing interferometer. The interferometer is implemented by a dual-pitch periodically poled lithium niobate ridge waveguide with two different quasi-phase matching pitch sizes. We obtain a 52-dB signal-to-noise ratio in the 100-kHz resolution bandwidth of a heterodyne beat signal, which is sufficient for frequency stabilization. We also demonstrate that the collinear geometry is robust against environmental perturbation by comparing in-loop and out-of-loop Allan deviations when the in-loop CEO frequency is stabilized with a phase-locked loop circuit. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
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