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As a consequence of a general trend in the physics of oscillators and clocks towards optics, phase and frequency metrology is rapidly moving to optics too. Yet, optics is not replacing the traditional radio-frequency (RF) and microwave…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-23 Enrico Rubiola , Vincent Giordano , Kirill Volyanskiy , Laurent Larger

Advanced digital signal processing techniques in combination with ultra-wideband balanced coherent detection have enabled a new generation of ultra-high speed fiber-optic communication systems, by moving most of the processing…

We introduce a novel laser-scanning optical microscopy technique that employs optical-frequency-comb (OFC) lasers. This method facilitates multimodal spectroscopic imaging by analyzing interferograms produced via a dual-comb spectroscopic…

For many applications Optical Frequency Combs (OFCs) require a high degree of temporal coherence (narrow linewidth). Commonly OFCs are generated in nonlinear media from a monochromatic narrow linewidth laser sources or from a mode-locked…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-17 Jacob B Khurgin , Nathan Henry , David Burghoff , Qing Hu

Frequency-modulated (FM) combs are produced by mode-locked lasers in which the electric field has a linearly chirped frequency and nearly constant amplitude. This regime of operation occurs naturally in certain laser systems and constitutes…

In this paper we study the origin and the effect of amplitude and phase noise on Laser Optical Feedback Imaging (LOFI) associated with Synthetic Aperture (SA) imaging system. Amplitude noise corresponds to photon noise and acts as an…

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…

Optical frequency comb (OFC) technology has been the cornerstone for scientific breakthroughs such as precision frequency metrology, redefinition of time, extreme light-matter interaction, and attosecond sciences. While the current…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-10 S. -W. Huang , A. Kumar , J. Yang , M. Yu , D. -L. Kwong , C. W. Wong

Optomechanical oscillators (OMOs) combine the co-existing high quality factor mechanical and optical resonances in an integrated device to realize low phase noise RF oscillations. While several attempts have been demonstrated towards…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-08 Cijy Mathai , Sunil A. Bhave , Siddharth Tallur

The noise feature of a single mode class-A laser is investigated in the presence (amplifier) and absence (free-running) of an input signal. The Maxwell-Bloch equations of motion have been solved after adding the cavity Langevin force to…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-04 S. Kiashemshaki , J. Jahanpanah

Background: In electrical brain signals such as Local Field Potential (LFP) and Electroencephalogram (EEG), oscillations emerge as a result of neural network activity. The oscillations extend over several frequency bands. Between their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Mojtaba Chehelcheraghi , Chie Nakatani , Cees van Leeuwen

A recent publication on arXiv:1905.00668 suggests that the phase relationship within a frequency comb can be reconstructed from a heterodyne measurement using a reference comb. In principle, following this approach, such retrieval of…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-14 Günter Steinmeyer

Chip-scale semiconductor laser frequency combs offer remarkable prospects for compact and power-efficient optical sensors. For the laser to be suitable for typical comb applications, its degree of coherence must first be assessed from a…

We present a unified model to describe the dynamics of optical frequency combs (OFCs) in quantum cascade lasers (QCLs), incorporating both ring and Fabry-P\'erot (FP) cavity configurations. The model derives a modified complex…

We report new limits on the phase coherence of the ultrafast mode-locking process in an octave-spanning Ti:sapphire comb. We find that the mode-locking mechanism correlates optical phase across a full optical octave with less than 2.5 micro…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael J. Martin , Seth M. Foreman , T. R. Schibli , Jun Ye

Optomechanical systems combine extreme sensitivity and bandwidth in the control of mechanical motion, of interest for various applications. Integrated on a chip, actuated and detected all-optically by a single laser, they could disrupt…

Homodyne tomography provides a way for measuring generic field-operators. Here we analyze the determination of the most relevant quantities: intensity, field, amplitude and phase. We show that tomographic measurements are affected by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Giacomo M. D'Ariano , Matteo G. A. Paris

Cavity optomechanics is a suitable field to explore quantum effects on macroscopic objects and develop quantum technology applications. A perfect control of the laser noise is required to operate the system in such extreme conditions…

The frequency stability achieved by an optical atomic clock ultimately depends on the coherence of its local oscillator. Even the best ultrastable lasers only allow interrogation times of a few seconds, at present. Here we present a…

Optical frequency combs (OFCs) are frequency rulers essential for precision metrology, next generation navigation, and testing of fundamental physics. Despite intense efforts, chip-integrated OFCs remain laboratory-bound, unable to fulfill…