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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501489
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- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [HR0011-15-2-0014]
- National Institute of Standards and Technology Precision Measurement Grant [60NANB13D163]
- National Science Foundation [PHY-1349725]
- Office of Naval Research [N00014-14-1-0041]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award [FA9550-15-1-0081]
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Optical frequency combs-coherent light sources that connect optical frequencies with microwave oscillations-have become the enabling tool for precision spectroscopy, optical clockwork, and attosecond physics over the past decades. Current benchmark systems are self-referenced femtosecond mode-locked lasers, but Kerr nonlinear dynamics in high-Q solid-state microresonators has recently demonstrated promising features as alternative platforms. The advance not only fosters studies of chip-scale frequency metrology but also extends the realm of optical frequency combs. We report the full stabilization of chip-scale optical frequency combs. The microcomb's two degrees of freedom, one of the comb lines and the native 18-GHz comb spacing, are simultaneously phase-locked to known optical and microwave references. Active comb spacing stabilization improves long-term stability by six orders of magnitude, reaching a record instrument-limited residual instability of 3.6 mHz/root tau. Comparing 46 nitride frequency comb lines with a fiber laser frequency comb, we demonstrate the unprecedented microcomb tooth-to-tooth relative frequency uncertainty down to 50 mHz and 2.7 x 10(-16), heralding novel solid-state applications in precision spectroscopy, coherent communications, and astronomical spectrography.
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