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Stable optical frequency comb distribution enabled by hollow-core fibers

Stable optical frequency comb distribution enabled by hollow-core fibers
Stable optical frequency comb distribution enabled by hollow-core fibers
Over the last two decades, optical frequency combs (OFCs) have enabled some of the most accurate measurements in physics. Distributing light from OFCs via optical fibers could make these high-accuracy measurement tools available more widely, from a few dedicated metrology laboratories to other laboratories and industry. However, the performance of distributed OFCs is strongly limited by impairments of standard single mode fiber (SMF), most notably its thermal sensitivity of chromatic dispersion, for which no compensation technique has been shown to date. To overcome this limitation, use of a new class of optical fiber is suggested here: a hollow core fiber (HCF), which offers more than an order of magnitude lesser such impairment. The measured OFC frequency stability of the optical mode and mode spacing reaches 1.8 × 10−19 and 1.5 × 10−17 at a few thousand seconds, respectively, after transmitting through 7.7 km of HCF. To the best of knowledge, this is the best ever performance for km-lengths of fiber-based OFC distribution. Besides, other HCF advantages over SMF in this application are discussed. Specifically, HCFs offer over an order of magnitude lower thermal sensitivity of propagation delay, several orders of magnitude lower optical nonlinearity, and almost ten times lower chromatic dispersion.
hollow-core fibers, optical frequency combs, stabilized distribution
1863-8880
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Feng, Zitong, Marra, Giuseppe, Zhang, Xi, Numkam Fokoua, Eric, Sakr, Hesham, Hayes, John R, Poletti, Francesco, Richardson, David J. and Slavík, Radan (2022) Stable optical frequency comb distribution enabled by hollow-core fibers. Laser & Photonics Reviews, 16 (11), [2200167]. (doi:10.1002/lpor.202200167).

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Over the last two decades, optical frequency combs (OFCs) have enabled some of the most accurate measurements in physics. Distributing light from OFCs via optical fibers could make these high-accuracy measurement tools available more widely, from a few dedicated metrology laboratories to other laboratories and industry. However, the performance of distributed OFCs is strongly limited by impairments of standard single mode fiber (SMF), most notably its thermal sensitivity of chromatic dispersion, for which no compensation technique has been shown to date. To overcome this limitation, use of a new class of optical fiber is suggested here: a hollow core fiber (HCF), which offers more than an order of magnitude lesser such impairment. The measured OFC frequency stability of the optical mode and mode spacing reaches 1.8 × 10−19 and 1.5 × 10−17 at a few thousand seconds, respectively, after transmitting through 7.7 km of HCF. To the best of knowledge, this is the best ever performance for km-lengths of fiber-based OFC distribution. Besides, other HCF advantages over SMF in this application are discussed. Specifically, HCFs offer over an order of magnitude lower thermal sensitivity of propagation delay, several orders of magnitude lower optical nonlinearity, and almost ten times lower chromatic dispersion.

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Accepted/In Press date: 8 July 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 7 August 2022
Published date: 7 August 2022
Additional Information: Funding Information: This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P030181/1), the European Research Council (682724), and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Laser & Photonics Reviews published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.
Keywords: hollow-core fibers, optical frequency combs, stabilized distribution

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Local EPrints ID: 468525
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/468525
ISSN: 1863-8880
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ORCID for Eric Numkam Fokoua: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0873-911X
ORCID for Hesham Sakr: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-8414
ORCID for Francesco Poletti: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1000-3083
ORCID for David J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058
ORCID for Radan Slavík: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9336-4262

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Date deposited: 17 Aug 2022 16:33
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Author: Zitong Feng
Author: Giuseppe Marra
Author: Xi Zhang
Author: Eric Numkam Fokoua ORCID iD
Author: Hesham Sakr ORCID iD
Author: John R Hayes
Author: Radan Slavík ORCID iD

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