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Optically generated terahertz (THz) oscillators have garnered considerable attention in recent years due to their potential for wide tunability and low phase noise. Here, for the first time, a dissipative Kerr microresonator soliton comb…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-10 Omnia Nawwar , Kaoru Minoshima , Naoya Kuse

We demonstrate broadband and sensitive cavity ring-down spectroscopy using a near infrared frequency comb and a time-resolved Fourier transform spectrometer. The cavity decays are measured simultaneously and spectrally sorted, leading to…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-28 Romain Dubreoucq , Lucile Rutkowski

Mid-infrared (MIR) spectrometers are invaluable tools for molecular fingerprinting and hyper-spectral imaging. Among the available spectroscopic approaches, GHz MIR dual-comb absorption spectrometers have the potential to simultaneously…

We show that the use of an optical frequency comb probe leads to dramatically improved bandwidth (as high as 12+/-1 MHz) for the detection of modulated radio frequencies in Rydberg atom-based electrometry.

Dual-comb spectroscopy in the ultraviolet (UV) and visible would enable broad bandwidth electronic spectroscopy with unprecedented frequency resolution. However, there are significant challenges in generation, detection and processing of…

Frequency comb based multidimensional coherent spectroscopy is a novel optical method that enables high resolution measurement in a short acquisition time. The method's resolution makes multidimensional coherent spectroscopy relevant for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Bachana Lomsadze , Steven T. Cundiff

Robust control and stabilization of optical frequency combs enables an extraordinary range of scientific and technological applications, including frequency metrology at extreme levels of precision, novel spectroscopy of quantum gases and…

Optics · Physics 2013-08-09 Scott B. Papp , Pascal Del'Haye , Scott A. Diddams

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…

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…

We demonstrate dual-comb spectroscopy based on difference frequency generation of frequency-agile near-infrared frequency combs, produced with the help of electro-optic modulators. The combs have a remarkably flat intensity distribution and…

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…

A mathematical description of heterodyne measurement of an optical frequency comb is presented. It is shown that for a signal beam containing many frequency teeth, the amplitude and phase of each tooth can be determined from the beatnote…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-24 Rory W. Speirs

While being invented for precision measurement of single atomic transitions, frequency combs have also become a versatile tool for broadband spectroscopy in the last years. In this paper we present a novel and simple approach for broadband…

THz quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) based on double metal waveguides feature broadband and high-temperature devices for use in spectroscopy and sensing. However, their extreme field confinement produces poor output coupling efficiencies and…

We present a heterodyne terahertz spectrometry platform based on plasmonic photomixing, which enables the resolution of narrow spectral signatures of gases over a broad terahertz frequency range. This plasmonic heterodyne spectrometer…

Optical frequency combs based on mode-locked lasers have proven to be invaluable tools for a wide range of applications in precision spectroscopy and metrology. A novel principle of optical frequency comb generation in whispering-gallery…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Pascal Del'Haye , Scott B. Papp , Scott A. Diddams

We have generated frequency combs spanning 0.5 to 20 GHz in superconducting half wave resonators at T=3 K. Thin films of niobium-titanium nitride enabled this development due to their low loss, high nonlinearity, low frequency dispersion,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-05 R. P. Erickson , M. R. Vissers , M. Sandberg , S. R. Jefferts , D. P. Pappas

The frequency comb of a multimode interferometer offers exceptional scalability potential for field-encoded quantum information. However, the staple field detection method, homodyne detection, cannot access quantum information in the whole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Bakhao Dioum , Virginia D'Auria , Alessandro Zavatta , Olivier Pfister , Giuseppe Patera

We demonstrate high-resolution photonic RF filters using an RF bandwidth scaling approach based on integrated Kerr optical micro-combs. By employing both an active nonlinear micro-ring resonator (MRR) as a high-quality micro-comb source and…

Sustained mutual coherence between two combs over extended periods is a prerequisite for dual-comb spectroscopy (DCS), particularly in achieving high-resolution molecular spectroscopy and precise spectral measurements. However, achieving…