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Terahertz wave generation using a soliton microcomb

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Pith's one-line read A soliton microcomb can emit terahertz waves as stable as a hydrogen maser.

desk verdict First phase-stabilized THz generation from a soliton microcomb with a UTC-PD, locked to a hydrogen maser; the claim is plausible but leans on in-loop data and a proxy measurement for the emitted THz field. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.11798 v1 pith:CR5EE3D7 submitted 2019-08-30 physics.optics physics.app-ph

Shuangyou Zhang , Jonathan Silver , Xiaobang Shang , Leonardo Del Bino , Nick Ridler , Pascal Del'Haye This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords terahertzwavegenerationsolitonmicrocombfrequencycombstabilizationunitravelling-carrierphotodiodehydrogenmaserphasenoiseAllandeviationimaging
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The reading

This paper claims that a tiny optical frequency comb, a single soliton circulating in a silica microtoroid, can act as the heart of a continuous terahertz source. A unitravelling-carrier photodiode converts the comb's 331 GHz pulse repetition rate into a terahertz wave, and locking that repetition rate to a hydrogen maser makes the terahertz frequency as stable as the maser itself: 9.6e-15 at one second and 1.9e-17 at 2000 seconds in a control loop. The same source, without stabilization, also takes transmission images at 331 GHz, revealing the number of nuts inside peanut shells. If correct, this points toward room-temperature, chip-scale terahertz generators for communication, spectroscopy, and imaging.

What carries the argument

The central object is the dissipative Kerr soliton microcomb: a single optical soliton circulating in a 200-micrometer-diameter silica microtoroid, whose optical spectrum with a sech-squared envelope corresponds to a 67 fs pulse train at a 331 GHz repetition rate. The repetition rate is the machine: when the train hits a unitravelling-carrier photodiode, the photomixing of adjacent comb lines produces a continuous 331 GHz wave whose frequency equals $f_{\mathrm{rep}}$. Stabilization works through an auxiliary 1.3 micrometer laser whose intracavity power changes the resonator temperature and thus $f_{\mathrm{rep}}$, giving a feedback actuator with more than 150 kHz bandwidth; locking $f_{\mathrm{rep}}$ to a hydrogen maser therefore transfers the maser's stability directly onto the terahertz carrier.

What would settle it

Measure the phase noise and absolute frequency of the radiated 331 GHz field directly with two independent unitravelling-carrier photodiodes fed by the same stabilized soliton comb: if the beat between their outputs shows excess noise or an offset not present in $f_{\mathrm{rep}}$, the conversion chain itself corrupts the terahertz signal. Alternatively, compare the free-running emitted wave against an independent terahertz frequency comb and check whether its Allan deviation is really 4.5e-9 at 1 s.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that a single-soliton microcomb with a 331 GHz repetition rate, converted by a unitravelling-carrier photodiode, produces a continuous terahertz wave whose frequency and phase are inherited from the comb's repetition rate. In the free-running state the emitted 331 GHz wave has an Allan deviation of 4.5e-9 at 1 s and a phase-noise floor of -118 dBc/Hz. When the repetition rate is phase-locked to a hydrogen maser via an auxiliary-laser thermal feedback loop, the in-loop signal shows fractional stabilities of 9.6e-15 at 1 s and 1.9e-17 at 2000 s, limited by the maser itself; the out-of-loop verification, which compares the microcomb's repetition rate against a fiber frequency comb, shows the same maser-limited stability. The paper demonstrates the source's practical use by forming non-destructive terahertz transmission images, resolving one versus two nuts inside peanut shells.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the 331 GHz wave emitted by the photodiode has exactly the same frequency and noise as the microcomb's repetition rate; the out-of-loop stability check in the paper actually measures the repetition rate optically, not the radiated terahertz field, so any extra noise or offset introduced by the photodiode, waveguide, or harmonic mixer would make the reported stability better than the true emitted wave.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • A compact, room-temperature terahertz source can inherit the frequency stability of an atomic clock, making it a candidate reference for terahertz metrology and high-capacity wireless links.
  • Changing the microresonator diameter should tune the generated terahertz frequency from roughly 100 GHz to several THz while keeping the same stabilization scheme.
  • The demonstrated more than 150 kHz actuation bandwidth and maser-limited in-loop stability suggest that the same locking method can hold other microcomb-based carriers, not just 331 GHz.
  • Using higher-power unitravelling-carrier photodiodes, the same optical train can produce milliwatt-level terahertz power, extending the scheme from bench-top proof to practical illumination.
  • The imaging demonstration shows that even an unstabilized soliton microcomb provides enough coherent power and spectral purity for non-destructive terahertz transmission imaging.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Because the out-of-loop check measures the comb's repetition rate rather than the radiated field, a direct measurement with a second unitravelling-carrier photodiode (or an independent terahertz comb) would be the fastest test of whether the reported stability applies to the actual terahertz beam.
  • The auxiliary-laser thermal actuator's 150 kHz bandwidth may become the limiting factor at higher repetition rates, where the comb's intrinsic noise at multi-MHz offsets is larger; a faster actuator could extend the lock.
  • The same phase-lock architecture could be transferred to integrated soliton microcombs and monolithically integrated photodiodes, which the paper cites as the route to out-of-lab devices; demonstrating that transfer is the logical next step.
  • If the hydrogen maser reference were replaced by a more compact optical clock, the source's stability would then be limited by the microcomb's intrinsic noise, revealing the true floor of this generation scheme.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper demonstrates generation of a continuous 331 GHz terahertz wave by photomixing a single-soliton microresonator frequency comb in a UTC-PD, and reports a free-running Allan deviation of 4.5e-9 at 1 s with phase noise of -72 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz and -118 dBc/Hz at 10 MHz offset. By phase-locking the microcomb repetition rate to a hydrogen maser through control of an auxiliary laser, the authors report in-loop fractional stabilities of 9.6e-15 at 1 s and 1.9e-17 at 2000 s, and use an out-of-loop fiber-comb comparison to confirm that the repetition rate is stabilized to the maser level. The paper concludes that the emitted THz wave has the same frequency stability as the maser, and demonstrates a proof-of-principle THz transmission imaging of peanuts.

Significance. If the results hold, this is an important step toward compact, atomic-referenced THz sources for metrology, communication, and imaging. The free-running and locked measurements are clearly described, and the authors are commendably candid about the experimental constraint that no second UTC-PD was available for an out-of-loop check of the radiated THz field. The out-of-loop comparison against a self-referenced fiber comb provides an independent check of the microcomb repetition-rate stabilization, which is the basis of the THz frequency. The imaging demonstration is a useful addition, and the comparison with prior microcomb microwave/THz generation is contextually valuable. The central limitation is that the absolute stability of the emitted THz wave is inferred rather than directly verified, and the abstract presents in-loop numbers as the stability of the THz signal, which is misleading. With appropriate qualification or a direct THz out-of-loop measurement, the paper could be a strong contribution.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 3.2, final paragraph] The statement that the in-loop Allan deviation of the THz signal is 'at least one order of magnitude better than that of the maser used, thus limiting the THz signal stability to the stability of the hydrogen maser' is internally contradictory. An in-loop Allan deviation better than the reference is a well-known artifact of measuring a loop's error signal, whose fluctuations are suppressed by the loop itself; it cannot simultaneously be 'limited by' the maser. The headline numbers 9.6e-15 at 1 s and 1.9e-17 at 2000 s are therefore not evidence that the emitted THz wave attains those stabilities. The abstract and the paper's conclusions should explicitly state that these are in-loop diagnostics, and that the out-of-loop measurement in Section 3.3 is the one that tests the actual locked performance, with its own limitations.
  2. [Section 3.3 and Section 5 (Conclusion)] The out-of-loop verification explicitly measures the microcomb repetition rate frep against a fiber comb, not the radiated 331 GHz wave, because no second UTC-PD was available. The free-running measurements in Section 3.1 do exercise the UTC-PD, WR-3 waveguide, and harmonic mixer, but the locked-state claim that 'the generated THz wave has the same frequency stability as the maser' presupposes that photomixing in the UTC-PD and the subsequent waveguide/mixer chain add no frequency-dependent phase noise or slow offset. This load-bearing assumption is unverified. The authors should either provide a direct out-of-loop measurement of the THz field (e.g., with a second UTC-PD or a THz frequency comb), or explicitly qualify the claim as applying to frep with the THz path assumed transparent. As written, the conclusion overstates the evidence.
  3. [Section 3.2 and Figure 2(b)] The in-loop phase noise (blue curve in Fig. 2(b)) shows approximately 90 dB suppression at 1 Hz offset, but this curve is measured on the loop error signal and is therefore not a valid bound on the absolute phase noise of the emitted THz wave. The out-of-loop phase noise (black curve) shows suppression only up to 5 kHz, limited by the fiber-comb locking bandwidth. The text should clearly explain that in-loop phase noise is a loop diagnostic and not an output property, and should state which curves in the figures are in-loop versus out-of-loop whenever such data are presented. This distinction is essential for readers to interpret the locking performance correctly.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Abstract] The sentence 'In particular optically generated THz waves are of high interest for low-noise signal generation.' is duplicated in the abstract; one copy should be removed.
  2. [Section 3.3, equation for fb3] The integer N=1323 is introduced without derivation or explanation of how it is determined from the comb frequencies; the authors should specify how N is obtained.
  3. [Figure 3(e) caption] The caption labels the blue triangles as 'out-of-loop THz signal', but the measurement is of the microcomb repetition rate frep; the caption should clarify that this is an out-of-loop measurement of frep, not of the radiated THz field, to avoid misleading readers.
  4. [Section 2 and Figure 1(c) caption] The text states the soliton spectrum corresponds to a sub-100 fs optical pulse, while the Fig. 1(c) caption gives 67 fs; these statements should be made consistent.
  5. [Introduction, third paragraph] The introductory description of the free-running stability as '4.5e-9 at 1 s integration time' does not specify that this is an Allan deviation of the down-converted IF signal after the UTC-PD; adding this detail would improve clarity.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the results are direct measurements, and the out-of-loop check is an openly stated proxy for the THz path.

full rationale

This paper is an experimental demonstration rather than a derivation chain. The THz wave is generated by photomixing a soliton microcomb in a UTC-PD, and the reported stability and phase-noise numbers are obtained from frequency-counter and spectrum-analyzer measurements of the down-converted IF signal, not from substituting fitted parameters into a model. The in-loop Allan deviation is explicitly labeled 'in-loop' in Fig. 3(e), and Section 3.3 provides an independent out-of-loop comparison of the microcomb repetition rate against a self-referenced fiber comb locked to the same hydrogen maser. The paper openly states that this route was taken 'due to the lack of another UTC-PD in our lab,' so the unverified link between frep and the radiated THz field is a declared hardware limitation rather than a concealed circular step. Citations to prior work by the same group (e.g., [21] for auxiliary-laser soliton generation) are ordinary references to externally published results and are not used to forbid alternatives or to import a uniqueness claim. No equation in the paper reduces a purported prediction to an input by construction, and no fitted quantity is renamed as a prediction. The in-loop nature of the headline Allan deviation is disclosed in the abstract and text, and the out-of-loop data independently ground the frep stability, so the circularity burden is not met.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No derivation is attempted, so there are no fitted model parameters or new entities. The central claim rests on standard photomixing and frequency-locking assumptions plus the experimental operating points. The most fragile assumption is the unverified equivalence between frep and the emitted THz field.

assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The THz wave emitted by the UTC-PD has the same frequency and phase-noise properties as the soliton microcomb repetition rate frep.
    All free-running and locked stability measurements are made on the down-converted signal after photomixing. Because a second UTC-PD was unavailable (Section 3.3), the out-of-loop check measures frep directly rather than the radiated THz field.
  • domain assumption The harmonic mixer downconverts the 331 GHz signal using exactly the 26th harmonic of the 12.69 GHz local oscillator.
    Section 3.1 states the IF is about 1 GHz with harmonic number 26; if the harmonic number were different, the inferred THz frequency and all stability results would shift.
  • domain assumption The auxiliary laser power changes the resonator temperature and hence frep with a slope of about -500 kHz/mW at the chosen operating point, with fast enough response for a 150 kHz locking bandwidth.
    This electro-thermal actuation is the feedback path used to phase-lock frep to the maser (Section 3.2). The reported locking bandwidth and Allan deviation depend on this transfer function.
  • domain assumption The hydrogen maser and the self-referenced Erbium fiber comb are accurate external references whose noise is low enough not to corrupt the measurement at the stated timescales.
    The locked THz frequency is defined against the maser, and the out-of-loop comparison uses the fiber comb stabilized to the same maser. If these references were noisy, the measured stabilities would be upper bounds rather than true source performance.

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The Terahertz or millimeter wave frequency band (300 GHz - 3 THz) is spectrally located between microwaves and infrared light and has attracted significant interest for applications in broadband wireless communications, space-borne radiometers for Earth remote sensing, astrophysics, and imaging. In particular optically generated THz waves are of high interest for low-noise signal generation. In particular optically generated THz waves are of high interest for low-noise signal generation. Here, we propose and demonstrate stabilized terahertz wave generation using a microresonator-based frequency comb (microcomb). A unitravelling-carrier photodiode (UTC-PD) converts low-noise optical soliton pulses from the microcomb to a terahertz wave at the soliton's repetition rate (331 GHz). With a free-running microcomb, the Allan deviation of the Terahertz signal is 4.5*10^-9 at 1 s measurement time with a phase noise of -72 dBc/Hz (-118 dBc/Hz) at 10 kHz (10 MHz) offset frequency. By locking the repetition rate to an in-house hydrogen maser, in-loop fractional frequency stabilities of 9.6*10^-15 and 1.9*10^-17 are obtained at averaging times of 1 s and 2000 s respectively, limited by the maser reference signal. Moreover, the terahertz signal is successfully used to perform a proof-of-principle demonstration of terahertz imaging of peanuts. Combining the monolithically integrated UTC-PD with an on-chip microcomb, the demonstrated technique could provide a route towards highly stable continuous terahertz wave generation in chip-scale packages for out-of-the-lab applications. In particular, such systems would be useful as compact tools for high-capacity wireless communication, spectroscopy, imaging, remote sensing, and astrophysical applications.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 1908.11798 by the authors.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Experimental setup and THz soliton frequency comb spectrum. (a) Schematic of the setup for microcomb-based THz wave generation. The 1.3 µm auxiliary laser is used to stabilize the THz signal. ECDL: external cavity diode laser; WDM: wavelength division multiplexer; PC: polarization controller; FBG: fiber Bragg grating; EDFA: Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; UTC￾PD: unitravelling-carrier photodiode; PD: photodetector; HM… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Performance of the generated THz wave with a free-running soliton microcomb. (a) RF spectrum of the generated THz signal with a 1 kHz resolution bandwidth (RBW). The red line shows a Lorentzian fit. (b) Single sideband (SSB) phase noise spectra of the generated THz signal. The graph shows data for the free-running single-soliton microcomb (red line) and data with frep being stabilized to a hydrogen maser (blue line)… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. THz wave stabilized to a hydrogen maser frequency reference. (a) Dependence of the THz signal frequency on the 1330 nm auxiliary power launched into the microresonator. (b) Electronic spectrum of the stabilized THz signal with a 5 kHz RBW. The inset shows the resolution bandwidth limited electronic spectrum (1 Hz RBW). (c) Time series measurement of the variation of the stabilized THz signal (red, left axis) and the… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Experimental setup for out-of-loop measurement of the generated THz wave. fb1, fb2 are beat note signals between the microcomb (pump mode and first sideband) with a fiber laser reference frequency comb. frepM, frepFC are the repetition rates of microcomb and fiber freq…

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