Recent developments in stabilized lasers have resulted in ultrastable optical oscillators with spectral purities below 1 Hz refs 1 - 6. These oscillators are not transportable at present and operate at a single frequency. To realize their full potential, a highly coherent, frequency-diverse fibre-optic network is needed to faithfully transfer the optical signals to remote sites and to different optical frequencies. Here we demonstrate such a coherent network composed of erbium fibre and Ti: sapphire laser-based, optical-frequency combs(7-9), stabilized optical-fibre links(4,10) and cavity-stabilized lasers(4-6). We coherently transmit an optical carrier over 750 m of optical fibre with conversions to wavelengths of 657, 767, 1,126 and 1,535 nm, an overall timing jitter of 590 attoseconds, and a frequency instability of 12 mHz for the 195 THz carrier in 1 s and 250 mu Hz in 1,000 s. This first remote synchronization of two frequency combs also demonstrates a factor of 30 improvement in the relative stability of fibre frequency combs(11,12).
Coherent optical link over hundreds of metres and hundreds of terahertz with subfemtosecond timing jitter / I., Coddington; W. C., Swann; Lorini, Luca; J. C., Bergquist; Y., LE COQ; C. W., Oates; Q., Quraishi; K. S., Feder; J. W., Nicholson; P. S., Westbrook; S. A., Diddams; N. R., Newbury. - In: NATURE PHOTONICS. - ISSN 1749-4885. - 1:5(2007), pp. 283-287. [10.1038/nphoton.2007.71]
Coherent optical link over hundreds of metres and hundreds of terahertz with subfemtosecond timing jitter
LORINI, LUCA;
2007
Abstract
Recent developments in stabilized lasers have resulted in ultrastable optical oscillators with spectral purities below 1 Hz refs 1 - 6. These oscillators are not transportable at present and operate at a single frequency. To realize their full potential, a highly coherent, frequency-diverse fibre-optic network is needed to faithfully transfer the optical signals to remote sites and to different optical frequencies. Here we demonstrate such a coherent network composed of erbium fibre and Ti: sapphire laser-based, optical-frequency combs(7-9), stabilized optical-fibre links(4,10) and cavity-stabilized lasers(4-6). We coherently transmit an optical carrier over 750 m of optical fibre with conversions to wavelengths of 657, 767, 1,126 and 1,535 nm, an overall timing jitter of 590 attoseconds, and a frequency instability of 12 mHz for the 195 THz carrier in 1 s and 250 mu Hz in 1,000 s. This first remote synchronization of two frequency combs also demonstrates a factor of 30 improvement in the relative stability of fibre frequency combs(11,12).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
