Common-path self-referencing interferometer for carrier-envelope offset frequency stabilization with enhanced noise immunity.
A nonlinear interferometer design for stabilizing the carrier-envelope offset frequency of a Ti:sapphire frequency comb with superior immunity to air currents and acoustic noise is presented. The scheme uses a pair of Wollaston prisms for group-delay dispersion compensation, providing an all-common-path optical configuration. Out-of-loop phase noise measurements for an unshielded interferometer setup showed up to 15 dB improvement compared to a Michelson interferometer based system. Further simplification of the self-referencing scheme providing a compact single-Wollaston-prism design has been demonstrated.
Tsatourian
Veronika
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National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0LW, UK.
Margolis
Helen S
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Marra
Giuseppe
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Reid
Derryck T
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Gill
Patrick
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