2011/11/16 by Andrey B. Matsko, Anatoliy A. Savchenkov, Matsko, Andrey B. +8
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #FOS: Physical sciences #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Optics (physics.optics) #Photonic and Optical Devices #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1111.3906
3 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Optics Letters
arxiv created 2011/11/16 · openalex publication_date 2011/11/16 · arxiv updated 2015/03/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
An optical technique based on stability transfer among modes of a monolithic optical microresonator is proposed for long therm frequency stabilization of a radiofrequency (RF) oscillator. We show that locking two resonator modes, characterized with dissimilar sensitivity in responding to an applied forcing function, to a master RF oscillator allows enhancing the long term stability of a slave RF oscillator locked to two resonator modes having nearly identical sensitivity. For instance, the stability of a 10 MHz master oscillator characterized with Allan deviation of 10-7 at 104s can be increased and transferred to a slave oscillator with identical stability performance, so that the resultant Allan deviation of the slave oscillator becomes equal to 10-13 at 104s. The method does not require absolute frequency references to achieve such a performance.