Optical frequency comb generation with ultra-narrow spectral lines

Opt Lett. 2017 Jul 15;42(14):2718-2721. doi: 10.1364/OL.42.002718.

Abstract

We demonstrate an optical comb source that generates 550 ultra-narrow spectral lines with a spectral linewidth of 1.5-3 kHz, spanning over the C-band. The source originates from a single-mode Brillouin laser processed with phase modulation, pulse compression, and four-wave mixing. As a result, the narrow linewidth of the Brillouin laser improves the phase noise of every spectral line of the frequency comb.