Low noise electro-optic comb generation by fully stabilizing to a mode-locked fiber comb

Opt Express. 2016 Jul 25;24(15):16884-93. doi: 10.1364/OE.24.016884.

Abstract

A fully stabilized EO comb is demonstrated by phase locking the two degrees of freedom of an EO comb to a low noise mode-locked fiber comb. Division/magnification of residual phase noise of locked beats is observed by measuring an out-of-loop beat. By phase locking the 200 th harmonics of the EO comb and a driving cw frequency to a fiber comb, a record low phase noise EO comb across +/- 200 harmonics (from 1544.8 nm to 1577.3 nm) is demonstrated.