Abstract

We phase lock an octave-spanning optical frequency comb, generated using a mode-locked titanium–sapphire laser and a photonic-crystal fiber, to a continuous-wave laser line-narrowed to a reference cavity. To phase lock the pulse-repetition frequency, the cavity length of the mode-locked laser is controlled by using a fast piezoelectric-actuated mirror of a servo bandwidth up to 80 kHz. The residual phase noise is 0.35 rad, and 89% of the power is concentrated to the carrier. To apply the system to optical frequency-ratio measurements and to evaluate the phase locking, a simultaneous frequency measurement of the beat between the other mode of the comb and another laser line-narrowed to a different resonance of the common reference cavity is demonstrated.

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