• 제목/요약/키워드: Optical frequency synthesizer

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Frequency-stabilized Femtosecond Mode-locked Laser for Optical Frequency Metrology

  • Yoon, Tai-Hyun;Kim, Eok-Bong;Park, Seong-Tae
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • 제7권3호
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    • pp.131-134
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    • 2003
  • We demonstrated an optical frequency synthesizer based on a femtosecond (fs) mode-locked Ti:sapphire (Ti:s) laser by simultaneously stabilizing the carrier-offset frequency, $f_{ceo}$, and repetition rate, $f_{ rep}$, referenced to the Cs atomic frequency standard. By using two wide-band digital phase-detectors we realized a phase-coherent link between $f_{rep} and f_{ceo} with the relation f_{ceo} = f_{AOM} 5/6f_{rep} ≡ 0, where f_{AOM} = 5/6f_{rep}$ is the phase-locked driving frequency of an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) in a self-referencing interferometer and $f_{rep}$ = 100 MHz. As a result, we could stabilize all components of the fs laser comb at once with an equal frequency separation $f_{rep}$ = 100 MHz with $f_{ceo}$ = 0. In our optical frequency synthesizer, the frequency of the nth component ($f_{n}$) is given exactly by the simple relation $f_n = nf_{rep}$, enabling us to use the fs laser comb as a frequency ruler in the optical frequency metrology.

거리 및 형상 측정을 위한 펨토초 레이저의 주파수 안정화 (Frequency Stabilization of Femtosecond Lasers for Dimensional Metrology)

  • 김영진;진종한;김승우
    • 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.188-191
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    • 2005
  • A common feature in various methods of optical interferometry for absolute distance measurements is the use of multiple monochromatic light components either in sequence or in parallel at the same time. Two or multiple wavelength synthesis has been studied though its performance is vulnerable to the frequency instability of the light source. Recently continuous frequency modulation is considered a promising method with availability of wide band tunable diode lasers, which also have frequency instability errors. We can lock frequencies of these third-party light sources to the modes of the femtosecond laser which is stabilized to the precision of the standard radio frequency. To this end, we have stabilized all the modes of the femtosecond laser to the atomic frequency standard by using powerful tools of frequency-domain laser stabilization.

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Self-Oscillating, Third-Harmonic Mode-Locked l-GHz Nd:YLF Laser

  • Yu, Tae-Jun;Sung, Jai-Hee;Nam, Chang-Hee
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • 제3권2호
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    • pp.51-54
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    • 1999
  • A Nd:YLF laser has been actively mode-locked at the third-order harmonic cavity frequency using a lithium niobate phase modulator. Self-oscillating pulses of 14 ps duration, 1 GHz repetition rate, and 10mV average power at 1053 nm wavelength have been obtained. A 1GHz rf signal to drive a phase modulator was obtained by using 1GHz pulse train without rf synthesizer as a driver of an active mode locker.

광 지연선 기반의 넓은 고도 범위를 갖는 고정밀 FMCW 전파고도계 송수신기 설계 (Design of the Transceiver for a Wide-Range FMCW Radar Altimeter Based on an Optical Delay Line)

  • 최재현;장종훈;노진입
    • 한국전자파학회논문지
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    • 제25권11호
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    • pp.1190-1196
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    • 2014
  • 본 논문은 넓은 고도 범위와 낮은 측정 오차를 갖는 주파수 변조 연속파(FMCW) 레이더 고도계의 설계 방안을 제안한다. 측정 고도의 동적 범위를 줄이기 위해 전파 고도계의 송신 경로에 광 지연선을 적용하여 넓은 고도 범위를 얻을 수 있다. 송신 전력과 수신단 이득을 제어하여 또한 수신 전력의 동적 범위를 줄일 수 있다. 더불어, 직접 디지털 합성기를 사용하여 변조 선형성을 향상시키고, 기준 클럭 신호를 위상 고정 루프의 옵셋(offset) 주파수로 사용하여 위상잡음을 최소화함으로써 낮은 고도 측정오차를 갖는다.