Optical frequency comb based on four-wave-mixing in a highly nonli-near fiber combined with electro-optic modulation
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Four-wave mixing, electro-optic modulation, Nonlinear optics, optical frequency combAbstract
In the last 20 years, optical frequency combs basedon femtosecond lasers have represented a revolution in thearea of metrology and precision measurements, making itpossible to directly measure frequencies of several hundredterahertz, and affording the advent of optical atomic clocks. In this work, we study the generation of optical frequencycombs based on electro-optic modulators and highly nonlinearfibers, with the goal of implementing new configurations andimplement frequency combs with the largest bandwidth, whilestill preserving the coherence between the generated frequencies,and taking advantage of commercially available componentsdeveloped for optical communications.We implement an optical frequency comb based on nonlineareffects in a high nonlinear fiber (HNLF) in combination withelectro-optic modulation. Experimental results show an opticalfrequency comb greater than 100 nm bandwidth centered in 1550 nm and 25 GHz between frequencies, using two singlecontinuous lasers.
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