Terahertz dual-comb spectrum stabilization system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025199378-A1
Application number	US-202218848920-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 14, 2022
Priority date	Mar 28, 2022
Publication date	Jun 19, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

The invention relates to a terahertz dual-comb spectrum stabilization system, including an optical loop for coupling a first optical frequency comb signal (OFCS) to a second OFCS; and a frequency mixer for performing frequency mixing on the coupled first OFCS and second OFCS to generate a dual-comb signal. A local oscillator signal end of the frequency mixer is connected to a multi-chain frequency multiplication chain, the multi-chain frequency multiplication chain is used for performing frequency multiplication processing on a radio frequency signal, a local oscillator frequency in terahertz frequency range is generated the local oscillator frequency in terahertz frequency range is respectively mixed with the first OFCS and the second OFCS in the frequency mixer, and two down-converted OFCSs are generated in microwave frequency range. One line of comb teeth of the two down-converted OFCSs are respectively locked to obtain a stable multi-heterodyne dual-comb spectrum.

First claim

1 . A terahertz dual-comb spectrum stabilization system, comprising:
an optical loop, used for coupling a first optical frequency comb signal to a second optical frequency comb signal; a frequency mixer, used for performing frequency mixing on the coupled first optical frequency comb signal and second optical frequency comb signal to generate a dual-comb signal; wherein a local oscillator signal end of the frequency mixer is connected to a multi-chain frequency multiplication chain, the multi-chain frequency multiplication chain is used for performing frequency multiplication processing on a radio frequency signal, then a local oscillator frequency in terahertz frequency range is generated by means of frequency multiplication using the frequency mixer, the local oscillator frequency in terahertz frequency range is respectively mixed with the first optical frequency comb signal and the second optical frequency comb signal in the frequency mixer, and two down-converted optical frequency comb signals are generated in microwave frequency range; a first signal extraction device, used for extracting one comb tooth from one of the two down-converted optical frequency comb signals; a first phase-locking device, used for locking the phase of the comb tooth extracted by the first signal extraction device; a second signal extraction device, used for extracting one comb tooth from one of the two down-converted optical frequency comb signals; a second phase-locking device, used for locking the phase of the comb tooth extracted by the second signal extraction device.

2 . The terahertz dual-comb spectrum stabilization system according to claim 1 , wherein the optical loop comprises a first parabolic mirror, a second parabolic mirror, a beam splitter, and a third parabolic mirror, the first parabolic mirror and second parabolic mirror collimate the first optical frequency comb signal and the second optical frequency comb signal, respectively, and converge to the beam splitter mirror, and the third parabolic mirror focuses the first optical frequency comb signal and the second optical frequency comb signal passing through the beam splitter mirror to an optical port of the frequency mixer.

3 . The terahertz dual-comb spectrum stabilization system according to claim 1 , wherein an input end of the multi-chain frequency multiplication chain is connected to a radio frequency generator, the multi-chain frequency multiplication chain multiplies a radio frequency signal generated by the radio frequency generator, and then the radio frequency signal is further multiplied to the terahertz frequency through the frequency mixer.

4 . The terahertz dual-comb spectrum stabilization system according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency mixer is a Schottky diode harmonic mixer with the frequency multiplication function, an IF signal end of the Schottky diode harmonic mixer is connected to a spectrum analyzer through a bias-Tee.

5 . The terahertz dual-comb spectrum stabilization system according to claim 1 , wherein a first low noise amplifier is disposed between the first signal extraction device and the first phase-locking device; a second low noise amplifier is disposed between the second signal extraction device and the second phase-locking device.

6 . The terahertz dual-comb spectrum stabilization system according to claim 1 , wherein the first phase-locking device and the second phase-locking device both employ phase-locked loop circuits, RF terminals of both phase-locked loop circuits being connected to output terminals of the respective signal extraction devices, LO terminals being connected to the respective radio frequency generators, and output terminals being connected to corresponding current sources of the respective optical frequency comb signals.

Assignees

• Shanghai Inst Microsystem & Information Tech Cas

Inventors

• Li Hua
• Ma Xu Hong
• Li Zi Ping
• Cao jun cheng

Classifications

• G02F2/002

  using optical mixing · CPC title

• G02F2203/13

  involving THZ radiation · CPC title

• G02F2203/56

  Frequency comb synthesizer · CPC title

• G02F1/3546 Primary

  Active phase matching, e.g. by electro- or thermo-optic tuning · CPC title

• Y02D30/70

  in wireless communication networks · CPC title