Generation of a phase-locked Raman frequency comb in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber

Opt Lett. 2012 Nov 1;37(21):4362-4. doi: 10.1364/OL.37.004362.

Abstract

In a relatively simple setup consisting of a microchip laser as pump source and two hydrogen-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers, a broad, phase-locked, purely rotational frequency comb is generated. This is achieved by producing a clean first Stokes seed pulse in a narrowband guiding photonic bandgap fiber via stimulated Raman scattering and then driving the same Raman transition resonantly with a pump and Stokes fields in a second broadband guiding kagomé-style fiber. Using a spectral interferometric technique based on sum frequency generation, we show that the comb components are phase locked.