Abstract
For dual comb spectroscopy or asynchronous optical sampling, a signal optical frequency comb (FC) is probed by a second FC serving as a local oscillator [1 2]. The repetition rate of the local oscillator comb, frep,1, is slightly offset from that of the signal comb frep,2, and the beat between them constitutes a radio frequency (RF) frequency comb, with a repetition rate of Δ = frep,1 frep,2. In a lab environment, the repetition rate drift can be very slow, so, some early experiments were implemented with non stabilized FCs [2]. However, more accurate measurement requires FCs with stabilized relative repetition rates. The repetition rates of the two FCs can be controlled independently, by locking directly to a microwave oscillator or locking two teeth of each individual FC to two stable continuous wave lasers [1][3]. Here, we report a simplified locking scheme, in which the repetition rate difference, Δ, of two FCs was directly stabilized.
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