The optical equivalent to a microwave frequency synthesizer
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Schibli, T.R.; Minoshima, K.; Hong, F.-L.; Inaba, H.; Bitou, Y.; Onae, A.; Matsumoto, H.
- Source
- (CLEO). Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. Lasers and Electro-Optics Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on. 2:1246-1248 Vol. 2 2005
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Frequency synthesizers
Laser tuning
Ultrafast optics
Optical interferometry
Laser mode locking
Atom optics
Tunable circuits and devices
Optical tuning
Metrology
Servomechanisms
- Language
We present an arbitrary optical single-frequency generator based on a femtosecond optical frequency comb. The absolute frequency accuracy is around 1 kHz at 282 THz, the stability is 2/spl middot/10/sup -14/ at 100 s and the tuning speed exceeds 30 GHz/s.