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Phase Noise Characterization of Cr:ZnS Frequency Comb using Subspace Tracking

Optics 2024-09-04 v1 Signal Processing

Abstract

We present a comprehensive phase noise characterization of a mid-IR Cr:ZnS frequency comb. Despite their emergence as a platform for high-resolution dual-comb spectroscopy, detailed investigations into the phase noise of Cr:ZnS combs have been lacking. To address this, we use a recently proposed phase noise measurement technique that employs multi-heterodyne detection and subspace tracking. This allows for the measurement of the common mode, repetition-rate and high-order phase noise terms, and their corresponding scaling as a function of a comb-line number, using a single measurement set-up. We demonstrate that the comb under test is dominated by the common mode phase noise, while all the other phase noise terms are below the measurement noise floor (~ -120 dB rad^2/Hz), and are thereby not identifiable.

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@article{arxiv.2409.01850,
  title  = {Phase Noise Characterization of Cr:ZnS Frequency Comb using Subspace Tracking},
  author = {Aleksandr Razumov and Sergey Vasilyev and Mike Mirov and Jasper Riebesehl and Holger R. Heebøll and Francesco Da Ros and Darko Zibar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.01850},
  year   = {2024}
}
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