Abstract
We have isolated a single tooth from a fiber laser-based optical frequency comb for nonlinear spectroscopy and thereby directly referenced the comb. An 89 MHz erbium fiber laser frequency comb is directly stabilized to the P(23) (1539.43 nm) overtone transition of 12C2H2inside a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber. To do this, a single comb tooth is isolated and amplified from 20 nW to 40 mW with sufficient fidelity to perform saturated absorption spectroscopy. The fractional stability of the comb, ∼7 nm away from the stabilized tooth, is shown to be 6 × 10-12at 100 ms gate time, which is over an order of magnitude better than that of a comb referenced to a GPS-disciplined Rb oscillator.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 23704-23715 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Optics Express |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 19 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 22 Sept 2014 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics