Abstract
The transfer of phase coherence from an ultrastable master laser to a distributed feedback diode laser, using an optical comb as a transfer oscillator, is obtained via a new scheme allowing continuous scanning across the whole tuning range of the slave laser together with absolute frequency determination. This is accomplished without phase lock loops, through a robust high-bandwidth feed-forward control acting directly on the slave laser output radiation. The correction is obtained by means of a dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder interferometer used as an optical single-sideband modulator. Coherence transfer across a master-slave frequency gap of 14 THz yields an ∼10 kHz linewidth providing high injection efficiency of an optical cavity with finesse 250 000. This allows demonstrating a cavity ring-down absorption spectrum of low-pressure ambient air over a 300 GHz spectral window.
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