Femtosecond optical parametric oscillator frequency combs

Creators: Kobayashi, Yohei; Torizuka, Kenji; Marandi, Alireza; Byer, Robert L.; McCracken, Richard A.; Zhang, Zhaowei; Reid, Derryck T.

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Techniques to measure and manipulate the carrier-envelope phase within femtosecond optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) allow their outputs to be stabilized in a way that produces a frequency comb structure, potentially tunable throughout the transparency band of the gain material. In this review we describe the fundamental principles of phase control, on which the development of singly- and doubly-resonant OPO frequency combs is based. We give examples of practical embodiments of such combs, and discuss in detail several applications, including spectroscopy, metrology, quantum computation and astrophotonics.

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© 2015 IOP Publishing. Open Access. Received 12 March 2015, revised 20 May 2015. Accepted for publication 18 June 2015. Published 3 September 2015. The results presented in this article would not have been possible without the contributions of a number of individuals, including: J Sun T I Ferreiro, K Balskus, B J S Gale, K L Vodopyanov, N C Leindecker, H Takada, and M Kakehata. Parts of this research were carried out under the METROCOMB project, which has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement no. 605057. The authors are also grateful for funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC ST/L002140/1).

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