Low finesse Fabry-Perot cavities for wide spaced frequency combs with large spectral bandwidth

Author

Steinmetz, T. ; Wilken, T. ; Holzwarth, R. ; Hänsch, T.W. ; Udem, Th ; Araujo-Hauck, C.

Author_Institution

Max-Planck-Inst. fur Quantenopt., Garching, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We use low finesse Fabry-Perot cavities in series to generate frequency combs with large mode spacing by simultaneously maintaining high spectral bandwidth. The attenuation of laser modes closest to the pass band exceeds 70 dB relative to the modes centered within the pass band for a 5 GHz Fabry-Perot filtering a 250 MHz frequency comb.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; optical filters; optical frequency conversion; spectral analysis; Fabry-Perot cavity; Fabry-Perot filtering; bandwidth 5 GHz; frequency 250 MHz; frequency comb generation; laser mode attenuation; wide spaced frequency comb; Atom optics; Bandwidth; Fabry-Perot; Filtering; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Spectroscopy; 120.2230 Fabry-Perot; 300.6190 Spectrometers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225337