The effect of ambient temperature fluctuations on the output frequency instability of the fiber femtosecond frequency comb

A study of the influence of temperature fluctuations of individual blocks of a fiber femtosecond frequency comb (FFC) generator and of the entire system as a whole on its output radio frequencies has been carried out. A two-circuit system for thermal stabilization of the air inside the FFC housing was implemented. An additional system for thermal stabilization of the transport fiber, which is included in the measurement scheme (outside the FFC), was implemented. A significant temperature effect on the measured output frequencies of the FFS is shown. Thanks to all the thermal stabilization systems, it has been shown that the instability of the developed fiber FFC introduced into its output microwave frequencies (in addition to the instability of the reference optical standard) is no worse than 2 × 10−16 per 1000 s.

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