20 years of developments in optical frequency comb technology and applications

T Fortier, E Baumann - Communications Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs were developed nearly two decades ago to support the world's
most precise atomic clocks. Acting as precision optical synthesizers, frequency combs …

Ultrafast fibre lasers

ME Fermann, I Hartl - Nature photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Ultrafast fibre lasers are fundamental building blocks of many photonic systems used in
industrial and medical applications as well as for scientific research. Here, we review the …

Revealing the buildup dynamics of harmonic mode‐locking states in ultrafast lasers

X Liu, M Pang - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Harmonic mode‐locking (HML) is an important technique enabling the generation of high‐
repetition‐rate ultrashort pulses. Using an emerging time‐stretch dispersive Fourier …

All polarization-maintaining fiber laser architecture for robust femtosecond pulse generation

W Hänsel, H Hoogland, M Giunta, S Schmid… - Exploring the World with …, 2018 - Springer
We report on a novel architecture for robust mode-locked femtosecond fiber lasers using a
nonlinear optical loop mirror with all polarization-maintaining fibers. Due to a nonreciprocal …

Space-borne frequency comb metrology

M Lezius, T Wilken, C Deutsch, M Giunta, O Mandel… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Precision time references in space are of major importance to satellite-based fundamental
science, global satellite navigation, earth observation, and satellite formation flying. Here we …

Generation of ultrastable microwaves via optical frequency division

TM Fortier, MS Kirchner, F Quinlan, J Taylor… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
There has been increased interest in the use and manipulation of optical fields to address
the challenging problems that have traditionally been approached with microwave …

Rapid and precise absolute distance measurements at long range

I Coddington, WC Swann, L Nenadovic… - Nature photonics, 2009 - nature.com
The ability to determine absolute distance to an object is one of the most basic
measurements of remote sensing. High-precision ranging has important applications in both …

All polarization-maintaining Er fiber-based optical frequency combs with nonlinear amplifying loop mirror

N Kuse, J Jiang, CC Lee, TR Schibli, ME Fermann - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
A fully stabilized all polarization-maintaining Er frequency comb with a nonlinear amplifying
loop mirror with below 0.2 rad carrier-envelope-offset frequency phase noise is …

Invited Article: A compact optically coherent fiber frequency comb

LC Sinclair, JD Deschênes, L Sonderhouse… - Review of scientific …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We describe the design, fabrication, and performance of a self-referenced, optically coherent
frequency comb. The system robustness is derived from a combination of an optics package …

Coherent dual-comb spectroscopy at high signal-to-noise ratio

I Coddington, WC Swann, NR Newbury - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2010 - APS
Two coherent frequency combs are used to measure the full complex response of a sample
in a configuration analogous to a dispersive Fourier transform spectrometer, infrared time …