All-optical stabilization of a soliton frequency comb in a crystalline microresonator

作者：Jost J D; Lucas E; Herr T; Lecaplain C; Brasch V; Pfeiffer M H P; Kippenberg T J^*

来源：Optics Letters, 2015, 40(20): 4723-4726.

DOI：10.1364/OL.40.004723

We demonstrate the all-optical stabilization of a low-noise temporal soliton based microresonator based optical frequency comb in a crystalline resonator via a new technique to control the repetition rate. This is accomplished by thermally heating the microresonator with an additional probe laser coupled to an auxiliary optical resonator mode. The carrier-envelope offset frequency is controlled by stabilizing the pump laser frequency to a reference optical frequency comb. We analyze the stabilization by performing an out-of-loop comparison and measure the overlapping Allan deviation. This all-optical stabilization technique can prove useful as an actuator for self-referenced microresonator frequency combs.

• 出版日期2015-10-15