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Optical frequency combs based on semiconductor lasers are a promising technology for monolithic integration of dual-comb spectrometers. However, the stabilization of the offset frequency fceo remains a challenging feat due the lack of…

Frequency combs have revolutionized optical frequency metrology, allowing one to determine highly accurate transition frequencies of a wealth of molecular species. Despite a recognized scientific interest, these progresses have only…

We report on a mid-infrared frequency comb source of unprecedented tunability covering the entire 3-10 {\mu}m molecular fingerprint region. The system is based on difference frequency generation in a GaSe crystal pumped by a 151 MHz…

Dual-comb spectroscopy (DCS) is a powerful Fourier-transform spectroscopic technique that provides high-speed, high-resolution, and broadband measurements without moving parts. However, the high peak power of mode-locked pulses limits the…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-30 Wei Long , Xinru Cao , Xiangze Ma , Jiaqi Zhou , Wenbin He , Dijun Chen

The development of broadband microresonator frequency combs at visible wavelengths is pivotal for the advancement of compact and fieldable optical atomic clocks and spectroscopy systems. Yet, their realization necessitates resonators with…

In this work, control over the precise state emitted by quantum cascade laser frequency combs through strong radio-frequency current modulation close to their repetition frequency is demonstrated. In particular, broadening of the spectrum…

Optical frequency combs have the potential to become key building blocks of optical communication subsystems. The strictly equidistant, narrow-band spectral lines of a frequency comb can serve both as carriers for massively parallel data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Pablo Marin-Palomo , Juned N. Kemal , Wolfgang Freude , Sebastian Randel , Christian Koos

We generate a 200-nm optical frequency comb at 1.5 microns by injecting two single-frequency lasers into a highly nonlinear fiber, and explore its spectral phase properties and high power to demonstrate full nonlinear conversion into its…

Optical frequency combs provide equidistant frequency markers in the infrared, visible and ultra-violet and can link an unknown optical frequency to a radio or microwave frequency reference. Since their inception frequency combs have…

Two techniques that employ equally spaced trains of optical pulses to map an optical high frequency into a low frequency modulation of the signal that can be detected in real time are compared. The development of phase-stable optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 Kochise Bennett , Jeremy Rouxel , Shaul Mukamel

Tunable lasers, with the ability to continuously adjust their emission wavelengths, have found widespread applications across various fields such as biomedical imaging, coherent ranging, optical communications and spectroscopy. In these…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-22 Baoqi Shi , Yi-Han Luo , Wei Sun , Yue Hu , Jinbao Long , Xue Bai , Anting Wang , Junqiu Liu

Optical frequency combs are one of the most remarkable inventions of the last decades. Originally conceived as the spectral counterpart of the train of short pulses emitted by mode-locked lasers, frequency combs have also been subsequently…

Optical frequency combs are indispensable links between the optical and microwave domains, enabling a wide range of applications including precision spectroscopy, ultrastable frequency generation, and timekeeping. Chip-scale integration…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-20 Yunxiang Song , Yaowen Hu , Marko Lončar , Kiyoul Yang

We demonstrate excitation of phononic frequency combs in a Bulk Acoustic Wave system at a temperature of $20$mK using a single tone low power signal source. The observed ultra low power threshold is due to a combination of very high quality…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-14 Maxim Goryachev , Serge Galliou , Michael E. Tobar

We propose a system of coupled microring resonators for the generation frequency combs and dissipative Kerr solitons in silicon at telecommunication frequencies. By taking advantage of structural slow-light, the effective non-linearity of…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-22 L. Marti , J. P. Vasco , V. Savona

Optical frequency combs (OFC) provide a convenient reference for the frequency stabilization of continuous-wave lasers. We demonstrate a frequency control method relying on tracking over a wide range and stabilizing the beat note between…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-07 Alexander Prehn , Rosa Glöckner , Gerhard Rempe , Martin Zeppenfeld

We demonstrate absorber-free passive and hybrid mode-locking at sub-GHz repetition rates using a hybrid integrated extended cavity diode laser around 1550 nm. The laser is based on InP as gain medium and a long Si$_3$N$_4$ feedback circuit,…

A high-power laser pulse at normal incidence onto a plane solid target will generate odd harmonics of its frequency. However, the spacing of the harmonic lines in this configuration is fixed. Here, we study harmonic generation using two…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-20 Raoul Trines , Holger Schmitz , Martin King , Paul McKenna , Robert Bingham

This study investigates the interaction between frequency combs and optical feedback effects in Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs). The theoretical analysis reveals new phenomena arising from the interplay between comb generation and feedback.…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-17 Carlo Silvestri , Xiaoqiong Qi , Thomas Taimre , Aleksandar D. Rakić

We have investigated parametric seeding of a microresonator frequency comb (microcomb) by way of a pump laser with two electro-optic-modulation sidebands. We show that the pump-sideband spacing is precisely replicated throughout the…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-15 Scott B. Papp , Pascal Del'Haye , Scott A. Diddams