Title :
Broadband astro-combs and the impact of nonlinear spectral broadening on sidemode suppression
Author :
Chang, Guoqing ; Li, Chih-Hao ; Phillips, David F. ; Walsworth, Ronald L. ; Kärtner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
We propose and analyze an approach to generating broadband astro-combs with 1 cm/s (∼10 kHz) calibration accuracy on astrophysical spectrographs. Implementation of these astro-combs requires a side-mode suppression of 60 dB before nonlinear spectral broadening.
Keywords :
Bandwidth; Calibration; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Narrowband; Optical fibers; Planets; Pulse amplifiers; Spectroscopy; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
