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NATURE PHOTONICS
Volume 1, Issue 5, Pages 283-287Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.71
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Recent developments in stabilized lasers have resulted in ultrastable optical oscillators with spectral purities below 1 Hz refs 1 - 6. These oscillators are not transportable at present and operate at a single frequency. To realize their full potential, a highly coherent, frequency-diverse fibre-optic network is needed to faithfully transfer the optical signals to remote sites and to different optical frequencies. Here we demonstrate such a coherent network composed of erbium fibre and Ti: sapphire laser-based, optical-frequency combs(7-9), stabilized optical-fibre links(4,10) and cavity-stabilized lasers(4-6). We coherently transmit an optical carrier over 750 m of optical fibre with conversions to wavelengths of 657, 767, 1,126 and 1,535 nm, an overall timing jitter of 590 attoseconds, and a frequency instability of 12 mHz for the 195 THz carrier in 1 s and 250 mu Hz in 1,000 s. This first remote synchronization of two frequency combs also demonstrates a factor of 30 improvement in the relative stability of fibre frequency combs(11,12).
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