Resources, Applications, and Articles
Octave Photonics featured in Colorado Tech Spotlight
The Colorado Tech Spotlight has published a deep-dive into Octave’s technology and history. Check it out!
Application note: Ultra-low-noise frequency comb offset stabilization
In collaboration with Menlo Systems, we use two COSMO devices to demonstrate that it can provide the signal to enable ultra-low-noise stabilization of a laser frequency comb.
Application Note: Simple frequency comb offset detection from 0 to 80 degrees C
Read our application note about how the COSMO can operate over a huge temperature range!
Application note: Simplified offset stabilization of a low-noise 1 GHz oscillator
Read our Application Note about how the Octave Photonics COSMO can be used with the Menhir Photonics 1 GHz oscillator and Vescent SLICE-OPL to stabilize the carrier-envelope offset frequency.
Nonlinear Integrated Photonics
Integrated photonics is the optical equivalent to the circuits that make up modern electronic devices. However, instead of routing electrons around a microchip, a photonic integrated circuit (PIC), guides light through nanoscale “waveguides”…
Low-Power Frequency Comb Stabilization
Frequency combs provide a link between optical frequencies (hundreds of THz) and microwave frequencies where electronics operate (hundreds of MHz). This capability is essential for optical atomic clocks, which must use frequency combs…
Optical Atomic Clocks
The precision of a clock is limited by how fast its “pendulum” swings. So, for the past several hundred years, humans have built clocks with faster and faster “pendulums”, trading the actual pendulum for spring-loaded wheels and then rapidly-vibrating quartz oscillators…
Exoplanet Detection with Astrocombs
Several decades ago, astronomers had no reliable way of detecting planets around distant stars (exoplanets), and many assumed that most of these stars did not have any planets orbiting them. However, recent technological innovations have enabled new methods for finding planets outside of our solar system (exoplanets)…