Dispersive-wave-agile optical frequency division

Abstract

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Acknowledgement

We thank I. Kudelin, F. Quinlan and S. Diddams at NIST, X. Yi at University of Virginia for fruitful discussions, as well as M. Gao, J. Ge, Y. Yan and Z. Yuan at Caltech for experimental assistance. This work is supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency GRYPHON programme (grant no. HR0011-22-2-0009), NASA USTP (University Smallsat Technology Partnership, award ID no. 80NSSC23M0239), the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) via the Department of Interior/Interior Business Center (DOI/IBC) contract no. 140D0423C0112, and the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech. The research reported here was performed by W.Z., A.S., V.I. and A.M. at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (grant no. 80NM0018D0004). The US Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation thereon. Disclaimer: The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of DARPA, IARPA, DOI/IBC or the US Government.

Data Availability

The data that support the plots within this paper and other findings of this study are available on figshare at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.27676482. All of the other data used in this study are available from the corresponding authors on reasonable request.

Supplemental Material

Supplementary Figs. 1–4 and Discussion. See attached:

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