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Coherent UV-to-Visible Light Arrays

January 9, 2017
Author(s)
Dong Yoon Oh, Scott Diddams, Ki Youl Yang, Kerry J. Vahala, Connor Fredrick, Gabriel Ycas
Short duration, intense pulses of light can experience dramatic spectral broadening when propagating through lengths of optical fiber. This continuum generation process is caused by a combination of nonlinear optical effects including the formation of so

Adaptive Terahertz Dual Frequency Comb Spectrometer

December 26, 2016
Author(s)
Flavio Caldas da Cruz, Francisco S. Vieira, David F. Plusquellic, Scott A. Diddams
Terahertz dual frequency comb spectroscopy (THz-DFCS) yields high spectral resolution without compromising bandwidth. Nonetheless, the resolution of THz-DFCS is usually limited by the laser repetition rate, which is typically between 80 MHz and 1 GHz. In

Optically referenced broadband electronic synthesizer with 15 digits of resolution

September 5, 2016
Author(s)
Franklyn J. Quinlan, Tara M. Fortier, A. Rolland, Frederick N. Baynes, A. J. Metcalf, Archita Hati, Andrew D. Ludlow, Nathan M. Hinkley, M. Shimizu, Joe Campbell, Scott A. Diddams
Increasing demands in the high tech industry for higher data rates and better synchronization necessitates the development of new wideband and tunable sources with improved noise performance over traditional synthesis based quartz oscillators. Precision

Soliton crystals in Kerr microresonators

July 18, 2016
Author(s)
Daniel C. Cole, Erin S. Lamb, Pascal P. Del'Haye, Scott A. Diddams, Scott B. Papp
Solitons are pulses which propagate without spreading due to a balance between nonlinearity and dispersion or diffraction, and are universal features of systems exhibiting these effects. They are important in plasma physics, fluid dynamics, atomic physics

Microresonator Brillouin laser stabilization using a microfabricated rubidium cell

June 17, 2016
Author(s)
William Loh, Matthew T. Hummon, Holly Leopardi, Tara Fortier, Franklyn Quinlan, John Kitching, Scott Papp, Scott Diddams
We frequency stabilize the output of a miniature stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) laser to rubidium atoms in a microfabricated cell to realize a laser system with frequency stability at the 10-11 level over seven decades in averaging time. In addition

Phase-coherent microwave-to-optical link with a self-referenced microcomb

June 6, 2016
Author(s)
Pascal P. Del'Haye, Aurelien C. Coillet, Tara M. Fortier, Katja M. Beha, Daniel C. Cole, Hansuek Lee, Kerry J. Vahala, Scott B. Papp, Scott A. Diddams
The counting and control of optical cycles of light has become common with modelocked laser frequency combs. But even with advances in laser technology, modelocked laser combs remain bulk-component devices that are hand-assembled. In contrast, a frequency

State of the Field: Extreme Precision Radial Velocities

May 17, 2016
Author(s)
Debra A. Fischer, Guillem Anglada-Escude, Pamela Arriagada, Roman V. Baluev, Jacob L. Bean, Lars A. Buchhave, Abhijit K. Chakraborty, Scott Diddams, Gabor Furesz, B. S. Gaudi, Philip C. Gregory, Frank Grundahl, Guillaume Hebrard, David W. Hogg, Andrew W. Howard, Colby A. Jurgenson, David W. Latham, Greg Laughlin, Thomas J. Loredo, Suvrath Mahadevan, Tyler M. McCracken, Mario R. Perez, David F. Phillips, P Plavchan, Lisa Prato, Andreas Quirrenbach, Paul Robertson, David Sawyer, Jason D. Eastman, Pedro Figueira, Eric B. Ford, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Paul Fournier, John A. Johnson, Christophe Lovis, Francesco Pepe, Francesco Pepe, Ansgar Reiners, Nuno C. Santos, Damien Segransan, Alessandro Sozzetti, Thorsten Carroll, Francois Bouchy, Paul Jorden, Tilo Steinmetz, Xavier Dumusque, Artie P. Hatzes, Enrique Herrero, Michael Endl, Andrew Szentgyorgyi
The Second Workshop on Extreme Precision Radial Velocities defined circa 2015 the state of the art Doppler precision and identified the critical path challenges for reaching 10 cm/s measurement precision. The presentations and discussion of key issues for

Dispersion engineered resonator on-a-chip

March 14, 2016
Author(s)
Scott A. Diddams, Ki Youl Yang, Xu Yi, Hansuek Lee, Dong Yoon Oh, Kerry J. Vahala, Katja M. Beha, Daniel C. Cole, Pascal P. Del'Haye, Scott B. Papp
Control of dispersion in fiber optical waveguides has long been important in optical fiber communications systems, and more recently for continuum generation through self phase modulation. The wavelength at which the group velocity dispersion crosses zero

Rapid, broadband spectroscopic temperature measurement of CO 2 using VIPA spectroscopy

January 28, 2016
Author(s)
Andrew M. Klose, Gabriel Ycas, Flavio Caldas da Cruz, Daniel I. Maser, Scott Diddams
Rapid spectroscopic temperature measurements of a sealed carbon dioxide sample cell were realized with an optical frequency comb combined with a two-dimensional dispersive spectrometer. A supercontinuum laser source based on an erbium mode-locked laser was

Demonstration of near-IR line-referenced electro-optical laser comb for precision radial velocity measurement in astronomy

January 27, 2016
Author(s)
Scott A. Diddams, K Vahala, J Li, Gabriel G. Ycas, P Plavchan, S Leifer, J Sandhu, G Vasisht, P Chen, P Gao, J Gagne, M Bottom, E.C. Martin, M.P. Fitzgerald, G Doppmann, C Beichman, X Yi
We describe a successful effort to produce a laser comb around 1.55 micron in the astronomical H band (1.5-1.8 micron) using a method based on a line-referenced, electro-optical-modulation frequency comb (LR-EOFC). The LR-EOFC is a spectrum of equally

Octave-spanning supercontinuum generation via microwave frequency multiplication

October 12, 2015
Author(s)
Daniel C. Cole, Katja M. Beha, Scott B. Papp, Scott A. Diddams
We demonstrate a system based on telecom components for the generation of an octave-spanning supercontinuum from a continuous-wave laser. The system utilizes direct multiplication of the 10 GHz signal derived from a synthesizer. Pulses are carved from the

Broadly tunable, low timing jitter, high repetition rate optoelectronic comb generator

October 1, 2015
Author(s)
Franklyn J. Quinlan, A. J. Metcalf, Tara M. Fortier, Scott A. Diddams, Andrew M. Weiner
We investigate the low timing jitter properties of a tunable single-pass optoelectronic frequency comb generator. The scheme is flexible in that both the repetition rate and the center frequency can be continuously tuned. When operated at 10 GHz comb

240 Hz linewidth Brillouin laser from a microrod whispering gallery mode resonator

September 29, 2015
Author(s)
William Loh, Aurelien C. Coillet, Frederick N. Baynes, Scott B. Papp, Scott A. Diddams, Joe Becker
We demonstrate an ultra-low noise laser that oscillates based on the stimulated Brillouin scattering nonlinearity in an optical microresonator. Our Brillouin laser employs a microrod resonator whose larger mode volume compared to conventional resonators

Self-referencing a CW laser with efficient nonlinear optics

July 26, 2015
Author(s)
Scott B. Papp, Katja M. Beha, Daniel C. Cole, Pascal P. Del'Haye, Aurelien C. Coillet, Scott A. Diddams
We phase-coherently measure the frequency of continuous-wave (CW) laser light by use of optical-phase modulation and 'f-2f' nonlinear interferometry. Periodic electro-optic modulation (EOM) transforms the CW laser into a continuous train of picosecond

Mid-Infrared Optical Frequency Combs based on Difference Frequency Generation for Dual-Comb Spectroscopy

May 10, 2015
Author(s)
Flavio Caldas da Cruz, Daniel I. Maser, Todd Johnson, Gabriel G. Ycas, Andrew M. Klose, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury, Scott A. Diddams
Mid-infrared femtosecond optical frequency combs at 2.8 - 3.5 υm were produced by difference frequency generation of the spectral components of a near-infrared comb in a 3-mm long MgO:PPLN crystal. We observe strong pump depletion and 9.3 dB parametric

Dual-microcavity narrow-linewidth Brillouin laser

March 5, 2015
Author(s)
William Loh, Adam A. Green, Frederick N. Baynes, Daniel C. Cole, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Hansuek Lee, Kerry J. Vahala, Scott A. Diddams
The tunable narrow-linewidth laser is a revolutionary metrology tool that is critical in precision spectroscopy and the determination of fundamental physical constants, displacement measurements at the 10 -20 level, and the development of the most advanced

Attosecond timing in optical-to-electrical conversion

February 10, 2015
Author(s)
Frederick N. Baynes, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Tara M. Fortier, Qiugui Zhou, Andreas Beling, Joe C. Campbell, Scott A. Diddams
The most frequency-stable sources of electromagnetic radiation are produced optically, and optical frequency combs provide the means for high fidelity frequency transfer across hundreds of terahertz and into the microwave domain. A critical step in the

Phase steps and resonator detuning measurements in microresonator frequency combs

January 7, 2015
Author(s)
Pascal P. Del'Haye, Aurelien C. Coillet, William Loh, Katja M. Beha, Scott B. Papp, Scott A. Diddams
Significant progress has been made in the last years towards a better understanding and theoretical modeling of Kerr-effect induced generation of optical frequency combs in microresonators. However, the simultaneous interaction of hundreds or thousands of

Broadband Noise Limit in the Photodetection of Ultralow Jitter Optical Pulses

November 14, 2014
Author(s)
Franklyn J. Quinlan, W. Sun, Tara M. Fortier, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, Yang Fu, Scott A. Diddams, Joe Campbell
Applications with optical atomic clocks and precision timing often require the transfer of optical frequency references to the electrical domain with extremely high fidelity. Here we examine the impact of photocarrier scattering and distributed absorption

High-Power and High-Linearity Photodetector Modules for Microwave Photonic Applications

October 15, 2014
Author(s)
Frederick N. Baynes, Efthymios Rouvalis, Xiaojun Xie, Qiugui Zhou, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Tara M. Fortier, Scott A. Diddams, Andreas G. Steffan, Andreas Beling, Joe C. Campbell
We demonstrate hermetically packaged InGaAs/InP photodetector modules for high performance microwave photonic applications. The devices employ an advanced photodiode epitaxial layer known as the modified uni-traveling carrier photodiode (MUTC-PD) with

Electro-optical frequency division and stable microwave synthesis

July 19, 2014
Author(s)
Scott A. Diddams, Jiang Li, Xu Li, Hansuek Lee, Kerry J. Vahala
Optical frequency division using a mode-locked- laser, frequency comb has revolutionized time keeping and the generation of stable microwave signals. A different approach for optical frequency division and microwave generation using a comb of frequencies