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OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS

Kerr combs bring purity to millimetre waves

A chip-based optical frequency comb has enabled the realization of a 300 GHz signal with record low phase noise. The development could yield ultra-compact, ultra-low-noise sources for millimetre-wave applications in telecommunications, remote sensing and precision spectroscopy.

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Fig. 1: Simplified schematic of the experiment presented by Tetsumoto and colleagues.

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Le Coq, Y. Kerr combs bring purity to millimetre waves. Nat. Photon. 15, 487–488 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-021-00838-3

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