Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

A phase-stable dual-comb interferometer

  • Zaijun Chen,
  • Ming Yan,
  • Theodor W. Hänsch,
  • Nathalie Picqué

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05509-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Dual-comb interferometry promises to be a high-precision metrology technique, but is hindered by short coherence times that limit the maximum number of averages. Here, Chen et al. achieve mutual coherence times of almost 2000 s by feed-forward stabilization of the carrier-envelope offsets.