We demonstrated an optical fiber frequency comb stabilized to an acetylene-filled photonic microcell.The short-term instability of the comb at 1 s gate time was 1.66×10^(-12)for a 4.2-h measurement in a laborator...We demonstrated an optical fiber frequency comb stabilized to an acetylene-filled photonic microcell.The short-term instability of the comb at 1 s gate time was 1.66×10^(-12)for a 4.2-h measurement in a laboratory environment with air conditioning.This is the best short-term stability reported for a compact fiber comb stabilized to an acetylene-filled photonic microcell at telecom wavelengths.It is particularly significant in the development of compact fiber combs with target instability of 10^(-13).Such a device has the potential to serve as an alternative to GPS in areas lacking signal coverage,including remote locations,regions with adverse weather conditions,and military intelligence areas.展开更多
基金supported by the Campus Science Foundation of Wuhan Institute of Technology(No.22QD01)the Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics(No.SKLST202105)the Hubei Province Natural Science Foundation(No.2023AFB778)。
文摘We demonstrated an optical fiber frequency comb stabilized to an acetylene-filled photonic microcell.The short-term instability of the comb at 1 s gate time was 1.66×10^(-12)for a 4.2-h measurement in a laboratory environment with air conditioning.This is the best short-term stability reported for a compact fiber comb stabilized to an acetylene-filled photonic microcell at telecom wavelengths.It is particularly significant in the development of compact fiber combs with target instability of 10^(-13).Such a device has the potential to serve as an alternative to GPS in areas lacking signal coverage,including remote locations,regions with adverse weather conditions,and military intelligence areas.
