1. A method for realizing double-optical-frequency comb system double-frequency doubling, wherein the double-optical-frequency comb comprises a signal optical-frequency comb light source and a local-oscillator optical-frequency comb light source which have different repetition frequencies and overlapped spectral ranges, and the method comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps of connecting n-order cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers to output ends of a signal optical frequency comb light source and a local oscillator optical frequency comb light source, collecting interference signals generated by the signal optical frequency comb and the local oscillator optical frequency comb in real time, intercepting interference peaks of the collected interference signals, comparing the interference peaks with interference peaks of reference interference signals, calculating to obtain static time offset and dispersion chirp introduced by the cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers, eliminating errors brought by the cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers through a signal post-processing algorithm, recovering periodicity of the interference signals, and achieving stable phase repetition frequency multiplication of the dual optical frequency comb spectrum system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the mach-zehnder interferometer is implemented by any of a fiber coupler, a fiber circulator, a spatial optical path, and an on-chip optical waveguide.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein an optical switch is disposed on an interferometric arm of the mach-zehnder interferometer to adjust a repetition frequency multiplication factor of the dual-optical-frequency comb system.

4. A method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the delay introduced by the nth order mach-zehnder interferometer is set at about:

wherein f is_rThe repetition frequency of the optical frequency comb of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer to be inserted; k is oneThe multiple integer, n-order Mach-Zehnder interferometer can increase the repetition frequency of the dual-optical-frequency comb interference signal by 2ⁿAnd (4) doubling.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein each order mach-zehnder interferometer is simultaneously coupled to the output of a signal-optical-frequency comb light source and a local-oscillator-optical-frequency comb light source, or is coupled to the output of only one of the optical-frequency comb light sources; alternatively, the number of interferometric arms of each order mach-zehnder interferometer may be greater than 2.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising: after a Mach-Zehnder interferometer is used for obtaining two optical frequency combs in a multi-pulse mode, the outputs of the two optical frequency combs are combined, the optical frequency response of a sample to be detected is detected through a photoelectric detector after passing through the sample to be detected and a reference light path, and absorption spectrum information of a substance is obtained after the influence of a light source background spectrum is removed.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising: and respectively separating a part of the signal optical frequency comb and the local oscillator optical frequency comb before light combination for detection to obtain a repeated frequency signal, and tracing to a radio frequency reference through a phase-locked loop.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising: two continuous lasers with different wavelengths and located in the overlapping spectral range of the double-optical-frequency comb are adopted, the continuous lasers are respectively photographed with the longitudinal modes adjacent to the continuous lasers and the double-optical-frequency comb, then frequency mixing is carried out on the photographed signals, the beat frequency between the independent longitudinal modes of the double-optical-frequency comb is obtained, two longitudinal modes in the interference signals of the double-optical-frequency comb are respectively extracted to be used as error signals, and the relative frequency noise of the two optical-frequency combs at the frequency of the continuous lasers is obtained; and through digital error correction, the distortion interference of relative frequency noise to the dual-optical-frequency comb interference signal is eliminated.

9. The method according to any of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the interference signals acquired in real time are processed as follows: fourier transform is carried out on interference signal frames acquired in real time to obtain phase frequency spectrums, polynomial fitting is carried out after the phase frequency spectrums are differed with the phase frequency spectrums of reference interference signal frames, and the phase frequency spectrums represent repetition frequency multiplication errors introduced by a Mach-Zehnder interferometer; and removing the phase frequency response obtained by fitting the real-time interference signal frequency spectrum, and performing inverse Fourier transform to the time domain to obtain a corrected interference signal frame.

10. A system for realizing double-optical frequency comb system double-frequency multiplication is characterized by comprising an optical frequency comb light source module, a double-frequency multiplication and heterodyne interference module and a signal acquisition and data processing module; the optical frequency comb light source module comprises a signal optical frequency comb light source and a local oscillator optical frequency comb light source which have different repetition frequencies and overlapped spectral ranges; the double-frequency doubling and heterodyne interference module is connected with a cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer at the output ends of a signal optical frequency comb light source and a local oscillator optical frequency comb light source, and obtains a multi-pulse interference signal after double-optical frequency comb heterodyne interference to realize exponential multiplication of the number of interference signal frames; the signal acquisition and data processing module acquires interference signals in real time, acquires the occurrence time and dispersion chirp information of each interference peak, compares the occurrence time and dispersion chirp information with a reference value, eliminates errors introduced by the cascade Mach-Zehnder interferometer through a signal post-processing algorithm, recovers the periodicity of the interference signals, and realizes the repetition frequency multiplication with stable phase.

Background

The femtosecond laser frequency comb, called optical frequency comb for short, is represented as a femtosecond ultrafast pulse sequence in a time domain, and is represented as a frequency longitudinal mode distributed equidistantly in a wide spectral range in a frequency domain.

The optical frequency comb is born in the beginning of the 21 st century, and the application field of the optical frequency comb is expanded from the early optical atomic clock to the fields of spectral analysis, absolute distance measurement, imaging, extraterrestrial planet exploration and the like after more than 20 years of continuous development and exploration. The dual-optical-frequency comb spectrum technology can realize automatic asynchronous optical sampling, can realize high resolution, high sensitivity, high accuracy, wide spectrum range and rapid spectrum measurement only by a single-point detector without a mechanical scanning component, becomes an important technology influencing the basic and applied physics, analytical chemistry and biomedical fields, and is widely applied to the fields of environmental monitoring, advanced manufacturing, national defense and military industry, aerospace, scientific research and the like. However, in many practical spectroscopic measurement application scenarios, the repetition frequency of the optical frequency comb is much smaller than the resolution required for spectroscopic detection, resulting in an unnecessary loss of measurement speed and sensitivity. In order to improve the measurement performance of the dual-optical-frequency comb system and enable the dual-optical-frequency comb system to be more suitable for the requirement of large-scale industrial application and popularization, a new dual-optical-frequency comb repetition frequency multiplication method which is low in complexity, low in cost, easy to integrate, strong in robustness and easy to implement needs to be developed.

It is to be noted that the information disclosed in the above background section is only for understanding the background of the present application and thus may include information that does not constitute prior art known to a person of ordinary skill in the art.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention mainly aims to make up the defects existing in the background technology and provide a method and a system for realizing the double-frequency doubling of a double-optical frequency comb system.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

the first aspect of the present invention provides a method for implementing double frequency multiplication in a double optical frequency comb system, where the double optical frequency comb includes a signal optical frequency comb light source and a local oscillator optical frequency comb light source that have different repetition frequencies and overlap spectral ranges, and the method includes: the method comprises the steps of connecting n-order cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers to output ends of a signal optical frequency comb light source and a local oscillator optical frequency comb light source, collecting interference signals generated by the signal optical frequency comb and the local oscillator optical frequency comb in real time, intercepting interference peaks of the collected interference signals, comparing the interference peaks with interference peaks of reference interference signals, calculating to obtain static time offset and dispersion chirp introduced by the cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers, eliminating errors brought by the cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers through a signal post-processing algorithm, recovering periodicity of the interference signals, and achieving stable phase repetition frequency multiplication of the dual optical frequency comb spectrum system.

Further:

the Mach-Zehnder interferometer is realized in any form of an optical fiber coupler, an optical fiber circulator, a space optical path and an on-chip optical waveguide.

And arranging an optical switch on an interference arm of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer to adjust the repetition frequency and frequency multiplication coefficient of the double-optical-frequency comb system.

The delay introduced by the nth order mach-zehnder interferometer is set at approximately:

wherein f is_rThe repetition frequency of the optical frequency comb of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer to be inserted; k is an arbitrary integer, and the n-order Mach-Zehnder interferometer can increase the repetition frequency of the dual-optical-frequency comb interference signal by 2ⁿAnd (4) doubling.

Each order Mach-Zehnder interferometer is simultaneously connected to the output ends of a signal optical frequency comb light source and a local oscillator optical frequency comb light source, or is only connected to the output end of one optical frequency comb light source; alternatively, the number of interferometric arms of each order mach-zehnder interferometer may be greater than 2.

Further comprising: after a Mach-Zehnder interferometer is used for obtaining two optical frequency combs in a multi-pulse mode, the outputs of the two optical frequency combs are combined, the optical frequency response of a sample to be detected is detected through a photoelectric detector after passing through the sample to be detected and a reference light path, and absorption spectrum information of a substance is obtained after the influence of a light source background spectrum is removed.

Further comprising: and respectively separating a part of the signal optical frequency comb and the local oscillator optical frequency comb before light combination for detection to obtain a repeated frequency signal, and tracing to a radio frequency reference through a phase-locked loop.

Further comprising: two continuous lasers with different wavelengths and located in the overlapping spectral range of the double-optical-frequency comb are adopted, the continuous lasers are respectively photographed with the longitudinal modes adjacent to the continuous lasers and the double-optical-frequency comb, then frequency mixing is carried out on the photographed signals, the beat frequency between the independent longitudinal modes of the double-optical-frequency comb is obtained, two longitudinal modes in the interference signals of the double-optical-frequency comb are respectively extracted to be used as error signals, and the relative frequency noise of the two optical-frequency combs at the frequency of the continuous lasers is obtained; and through digital error correction, the distortion interference of relative frequency noise to the dual-optical-frequency comb interference signal is eliminated.

The interference signal collected in real time is processed as follows: fourier transform is carried out on interference signal frames acquired in real time to obtain phase frequency spectrums, polynomial fitting is carried out after the phase frequency spectrums are differed with the phase frequency spectrums of reference interference signal frames, and the phase frequency spectrums represent repetition frequency multiplication errors introduced by a Mach-Zehnder interferometer; and removing the phase frequency response obtained by fitting the real-time interference signal frequency spectrum, and performing inverse Fourier transform to the time domain to obtain a corrected interference signal frame.

The second aspect of the invention provides a system for realizing double-frequency doubling of a double-optical frequency comb system, which comprises an optical frequency comb light source module, a double-frequency doubling and heterodyne interference module and a signal acquisition and data processing module; the optical frequency comb light source module comprises a signal optical frequency comb light source and a local oscillator optical frequency comb light source which have different repetition frequencies and overlapped spectral ranges; the double-frequency doubling and heterodyne interference module is connected with a cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer at the output ends of a signal optical frequency comb light source and a local oscillator optical frequency comb light source, and obtains a multi-pulse interference signal after double-optical frequency comb heterodyne interference to realize exponential multiplication of the number of interference signal frames; the signal acquisition and data processing module acquires interference signals in real time, compares the interference signals with a reference value to obtain the occurrence time and dispersion chirp information of each interference peak, eliminates errors introduced by the cascade Mach-Zehnder interferometer through a signal post-processing algorithm, recovers the periodicity of the interference signals, and realizes the repetition frequency doubling with stable phase.

In some embodiments of the present invention, an n-order cascaded mach-zehnder interferometer is inserted into the output ends of two optical-frequency combs, and the number of interference peaks per unit time is increased by 2 due to the asynchronous optical sampling principle of the two optical-frequency combsⁿAnd (4) doubling. The n-order Mach-Zehnder interferometer can improve the repetition frequency of the dual-optical-frequency comb interference signal by 2ⁿAnd (4) doubling. For length deviation and dispersion chirp introduced by the Mach-Zehnder interferometer, interference signals generated by a signal optical frequency comb and a local oscillator optical frequency comb are collected in real time, interference peaks are intercepted from the collected interference signals and are compared with randomly selected reference interference peaks, static time offset and chirp generated by the Mach-Zehnder interferometer are calculated and obtained, the undesirable phase frequency transfer function is compensated through a digital post-processing algorithm, and finally a double-optical-frequency-multiplication double-optical-frequency-comb spectrum system with stable phase is obtained.

The corrected double-optical-frequency comb interference signal recovers complete phase stability, can perform time domain coherent averaging frame by frame, and increases the frame number by 2 compared with the frame number before frequency multiplication in the same timeⁿAnd the interference signals with higher signal-to-noise ratio can be obtained after averaging. Finally realized refresh rate improvement 2 of double-optical-frequency comb spectrum systemⁿAnd the method can be used for rapid time-resolved spectrum measurement.

In some embodiments, each order mach-zehnder interferometer can be inserted into the output ends of two optical-frequency combs simultaneously, or can be inserted into the output end of only one optical-frequency comb, and the front-back order between the orders can be adjusted randomly. The number of interference arms of each order of Mach-Zehnder interferometer can be more than 2, and the number of interference arms of each order is multiplied, so that the repetition frequency and the frequency multiplication of any integral multiple can be realized.

In some embodiments, the mach-zehnder interferometers are formed by connecting 1 × 2 and 2 × 2 fiber couplers, and may also be implemented in the form of fiber optic circulators, spatial optical paths, on-chip optical waveguides, and the like. An optical switch can be added on an interference arm of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer to flexibly adjust the repetition frequency and frequency multiplication coefficient of the double-optical-frequency comb system.

In some embodiments, after the mach-zehnder interferometer is used to obtain the two optical frequency combs in the multi-pulse mode, the outputs of the two optical frequency combs are combined and pass through a sample to be detected and a reference optical path, an optical frequency response of the sample is detected by using a photoelectric detector, and absorption spectrum information of a substance is obtained after the influence of a light source background spectrum is removed.

In some embodiments, a small portion of the output light of the two optical frequency comb light sources is respectively split and applied to the photodetector, so as to obtain the repetition frequency signal. The frequency tracking device is locked to the radio frequency signal generator through the phase-locked loop, so that the repeated frequency tracing and flexible tuning of the optical frequency comb seed source are realized. The phase-locked loop does not need high bandwidth and locking precision, and only needs to ensure that the frequency spectrum of an interference signal of the double-optical-frequency comb can fall in a Nyquist frequency range limited by a sampling theorem without aliasing.

In some embodiments, a digital error correction method is employed to eliminate relative frequency noise between the dual optical frequency combs. Two free-running continuous lasers are introduced as optical media, and each continuous laser and the two optical frequency combs are beaten and then mixed with each other to obtain relative frequency noise of the two optical frequency combs at the frequency of the continuous lasers. By digital error correction, the distortion interference of relative frequency noise to the dual-optical-frequency comb interference signal can be eliminated.

In some embodiments, the time delay introduced by the mach-zehnder interferometer does not require special fine length control, since the residual optical path error is simply a static shift that causes time to be eliminated by signal post-processing algorithms. In addition, the chirp introduced by the optical fiber does not need to be subjected to dispersion compensation and can be corrected by an algorithm. And acquiring interference signals generated by the two optical frequency combing lights in real time, intercepting the acquired interference signals frame by frame to obtain interference peaks, and comparing the real-time interference signal frames with a reference signal frame to obtain static time offset and additional chirp introduced by the Mach-Zehnder interferometer.

In some embodiments, the real-time interference signal frame is subjected to fourier transform to obtain a phase spectrum, and polynomial fitting is performed after the phase spectrum of the real-time interference signal frame is differed with the phase spectrum of the reference interference signal frame to represent a repetition frequency multiplication error introduced by the mach-zehnder interferometer. After removing the phase-frequency response obtained by fitting the real-time interference signal frequency spectrum, performing inverse Fourier transform to the time domain to obtain a corrected interference signal frame, and eliminating the influence of static time offset and additional chirp.

In some embodiments, the output ends of the two optical frequency comb light sources are connected to a cascaded polarization maintaining optical fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer, and the polarization state of the optical frequency comb light sources is adjusted to be consistent with the optical axis direction of the polarization maintaining optical fiber, so that the coupling efficiency of light is improved. The single Mach-Zehnder interferometer is realized by two optical fiber couplers, the optical frequency comb is divided into two beams after passing through the 1 multiplied by 2 optical fiber couplers, and the beams are combined by the couplers after passing through different propagation distances. After the Mach-Zehnder interferometers continuously pass through the 2 multiplied by 2 couplers, the cascade connection of the Mach-Zehnder interferometers can be realized.

The light of the two optical frequency combs after passing through the Mach-Zehnder interferometer is combined by the 2 multiplied by 2 coupler and respectively passes through a sample to be detected and a reference optical path without the sample, and finally, a double-optical frequency comb interference signal with multiple frequencies and multiple frequencies is obtained. When the cascade order of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer is n, the repetition frequency value of the interference signal is increased by 2 from the repetition frequency difference of the first dual-optical-frequency combⁿAnd (4) doubling.

In some embodiments, in order to eliminate the distortion of the interference signal caused by the relative frequency noise of the dual-optical-frequency comb, two free-running continuous lasers are introduced as optical media, the relative longitudinal mode beat signals of the two optical-frequency combs at different frequency positions are respectively extracted, and the frequency f corresponding to the two longitudinal modes of the interference signal is obtained after the instantaneous frequency and the phase are solved by Hilbert transform_p1、f_p2And phase ditheringδf_p2(t), meterCalculating time jitter of dual optical frequency comb interference signal

And carrier envelope phase jitter

For collected double optical frequency comb interference signal I₀(t) first, carrier envelope phase jitter is eliminated

Time jitter elimination by time domain resampling or interpolation

I₂(t)＝I₁(t-δτ₀(t))

I₂And (t) is the interference signal recovered after the relative frequency jitter of the double optical frequency comb is completely corrected, at the moment, the interference signal recovers complete periodicity, only amplitude noise interference of types such as laser relative intensity noise, detector noise, sampling noise and the like is remained, and the signal-to-noise ratio can be improved through coherent averaging. By applying successive interference signals I₂(t) dividing the frame according to the repetition frequency difference of the dual optical frequency comb as a repetition period, and representing the signal of each frame asCalculating interference signals after m times of coherent averaging by adopting the following formula

Due to the frequency doubling effect of the n-order Mach-Zehnder interferometer, the number of interference peaks contained in the coherent-averaged basic frame is 2ⁿTherefore, the base frame can be divided into 2 againⁿAnd a sub-frame.Due to the difference between the actual delay and the theoretical delay generated by the optical fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer, static time offset exists between different interference signal sub-frames. In addition, the different arms of the interferometer introduce different fiber dispersions that produce different chirps. For this purpose, willDivided 2ⁿOne sub-frameFourier transform to obtain their phase spectrum P_i(f) Selecting the phase spectrum P of any one frame_k(f) For reference, the relative phase spectrum δ P of other frames is obtained_i(f)＝P_i(f)-P_k(f) For δ P_i(f) Performing polynomial fitting to obtain phase-frequency transfer function introduced by chirp and static time offsetDigital error correction using the following formula

After coherent averaging again, the final interference signal frame can be obtained

And after Fourier transformation, transforming the frequency axis from the radio frequency domain to the optical frequency domain to obtain the spectrum information carried by the double-optical frequency comb light source. The transmission spectrum and the absorbance of the substance can be obtained by comparing the spectra obtained by the measuring arm and the reference arm, and the measurement of the information such as the composition, the concentration, the pressure intensity, the temperature and the like of the substance in a wide spectral range is realized.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:

the invention provides a method and a system for realizing double-optical-frequency-comb spectrum system repeated frequency multiplication, wherein output ends of two optical-frequency combs are connected with a cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer, and multi-pulse interference signals are obtained after heterodyne interference of the two optical-frequency combs, so that exponential multiplication of the number of frames of the interference signals is realized; in the signal acquisition and data processing process, interference signals are acquired in real time to obtain the occurrence time and dispersion chirp information of each interference peak, the occurrence time and the dispersion chirp information are compared with a reference value, errors introduced by a cascade Mach-Zehnder interferometer are eliminated through a signal post-processing algorithm, the periodicity of the interference signals is recovered, and the double-frequency-doubling dual-optical-frequency comb spectrum system with stable phase is realized. The invention only uses the passive cascade Mach-Zehnder interferometer and the signal post-processing algorithm, can realize the effective frequency multiplication of the double-optical-frequency comb system without any active closed loop or tuning loop, can carry out long-term coherent averaging, and improves the sensitivity and the measuring speed of the double-optical-frequency comb system.

According to the invention, the double-frequency-multiplication double-optical-frequency comb spectrum system with high compactness, high robustness, low system complexity and high phase stability can be realized by only using mature optical fiber communication devices to form a cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer and combining a signal post-processing algorithm. Compared with a repetition frequency doubling method based on a Fabry-Perot resonant cavity, the method has higher energy utilization rate, does not need closed-loop feedback control, and is easy to realize a wide spectrum range. With the increase of the cascade order of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer, the acquisition speed and the sensitivity of the dual-optical-frequency comb interference signal can be improved by exponential times, and faster time-resolved spectrum measurement is realized. For static spectrum measurement needing high sensitivity, the coherent averaging process can be accelerated, and a higher signal-to-noise ratio can be obtained at the same time. A simple and effective scheme is provided for improving the performance of the optical frequency comb absolute distance measurement, the spectral analysis and the precision sensing system. As the Mach-Zehnder interferometer becomes a mature integrated optical component, the method can be applied to the multiple frequency of the chip-level integrated optical frequency comb, and lays a foundation for improving the performance of the on-chip optical frequency comb spectrum system.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a dual optical frequency comb spectroscopy system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a flow chart of signal acquisition and data processing according to an embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of the principle of eliminating noise of a dual-optical-frequency comb light source by using a continuous laser as a medium.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the principle of asynchronous optical sampling of a dual optical frequency comb based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer.

Detailed Description

The embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below. It should be emphasized that the following description is merely exemplary in nature and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention or its application.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or be indirectly on the other element. When an element is referred to as being "connected to" another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or be indirectly connected to the other element. In addition, the connection may be for either a fixed or coupled or communicating function.

It is to be understood that the terms "length," "width," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," and the like are used in an orientation or positional relationship indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the embodiments of the present invention and to simplify the description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed in a particular orientation, and be in any way limiting of the present invention.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the embodiments of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.

Reference is made to the figure1 and fig. 2, an embodiment of the present invention provides a flexible multiple frequency and double optical frequency comb spectrum measurement method, including an optical frequency comb light source module, a multiple frequency and double frequency and heterodyne interference module, and a signal acquisition and data processing module. The optical frequency comb light source module comprises two optical frequency comb light sources which are different in repetition frequency and have overlapped spectral ranges. The two optical frequency combs respectively lock the repetition frequency to the frequency reference through phase-locked loops to ensure the light source repetition frequency f of the optical frequency combs_r1And f_r2Long term stability and tunability. Overlapping spectral range Deltav and repetition frequency difference Deltaf of double-optical frequency comb_rThe requirements of the band-pass sampling theorem need to be met.

Since the multiple frequency locking can only ensure the long-term stability of the optical frequency combs, the two optical frequency combs are still in a free running state on a short time scale, and the preferred embodiment performs real-time extraction and compensation on the time jitter and the carrier envelope phase jitter of the interference signal caused by the relative frequency noise of the double optical frequency combs. To this end, two continuous lasers of different wavelengths, but both located in overlapping spectral ranges of the dual-optical-frequency comb, are employed in the preferred embodiment. As shown in fig. 3, the continuous laser respectively beats the two optical frequency combs and the adjacent longitudinal modes of the continuous laser, and then mixes the beat signals to obtain the beat frequency between the two independent longitudinal modes of the two optical frequency combs. Since the continuous laser only plays a role of an intermediate medium, the frequency noise of the continuous laser does not influence the jitter extraction, and therefore the requirement can be met by adopting the free-running continuous laser. Two continuous lasers can respectively extract two longitudinal modes in the double-optical-frequency comb interference signal as an error signal E₁(t) and E₂(t)。

In order to realize robust, efficient and high-energy utilization rate double-optical-frequency comb repetition frequency multiplication and improve refreshing frequency delta f of interference signal peak_rThe n-order cascaded optical fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometers can be respectively inserted into the output ends of the two optical frequency combs. In order to avoid the reduction of interference contrast caused by different polarization states, the Mach-Zehnder interferometer adopts polarization-maintaining optical fibers. When light is emittedWhen the output of the frequency comb light source is transmitted by a single-mode optical fiber, in order to improve the coupling efficiency, the preferred embodiment uses the polarization controller to adjust the polarization state of the incident light before entering the interferometer, so that the polarization state is consistent with the optical axis direction of the polarization-maintaining optical fiber. The single Mach-Zehnder interferometer consists of two optical fiber couplers, an optical frequency comb is divided into two beams after passing through the 1 multiplied by 2 optical fiber couplers, and the two beams are combined through the couplers after passing through different propagation distances. After the Mach-Zehnder interferometers continuously pass through the 2 multiplied by 2 couplers, the cascade connection of the Mach-Zehnder interferometers can be realized. As shown in FIG. 4, the output light from the optical-frequency comb 1 is delayed by Δ τ₁After the first-order Mach-Zehnder interferometer is combined with the optical frequency comb 2, according to the asynchronous optical sampling process, the time delay delta t generated by the interference signal is

To realize frequency doubling of the repetition frequency of the interference signal, Δ τ is satisfied₁＝1/2f_r1. Similarly, if Δ τ is introduced into the output light of the optical-frequency comb 2₂When Δ τ is equal to₂＝1/2f_r2The same effect of repetition frequency and frequency multiplication can be generated. Thus, to realize 2ⁿMultiplying the multiplied frequency and doubling the frequency, cascading the Mach-Zehnder interferometers, and setting the delay introduced by the Nth-order Mach-Zehnder interferometer to be approximately:

the Mach-Zehnder interferometers of each order can be simultaneously inserted into the output ends of two optical frequency combs, or can be inserted into the output ends of any optical frequency comb, and the sequence between the orders can be adjusted at will. When inserted into the output end of the optical frequency comb 1, f in the formula_rTake f_r1On the contrary f_rTake f_r2. The optical switches are added in each order of Mach-Zehnder interferometer, so that the order and delay number of the interferometer can be flexibly controlled, the flexible adjustment of the repetition frequency and the frequency multiplication coefficient is realized, and the spectrum measurement system can adapt to the requirements of different applications.

Instead of using fiber couplers, cascaded mach-zehnder interferometers may also be implemented in the form of fiber circulators, spatial optical paths, on-chip optical waveguides, etc. The input and output number of the coupler can be flexibly adjusted, so that the number of interference arms of the single-order Mach-Zehnder interferometer is an arbitrary integer. At this time, the total repetition frequency multiplication coefficient of the cascade Mach-Zehnder interferometer is multiplied by the number of interference arms of each order, so that repetition frequency multiplication of any integral multiple can be realized.

After passing through the cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers, output pulses of the two optical frequency combs generate corresponding time delay, the output pulses respectively pass through a sample to be detected and a reference optical path without the sample after being combined by a 2 multiplied by 2 coupler or a spatial optical path, and finally enter a detector, and after asynchronous optical sampling, multi-pulse interference signals are obtained. The measurement interference signal comprises spectrum modulation generated by a measured sample, the reference interference signal can be obtained through a single reference light path, and the double-optical-frequency comb background spectrum can be obtained by performing polynomial fitting, nonlinear function fitting and other modes on the measurement spectrum, so that the optical response function of the sample is obtained. Filtering out the interference signal with low-pass filter_rAnd the frequency component of/2 enters a signal acquisition and data processing module.

FIG. 2 shows an algorithm flow chart of data acquisition, processing and offset frequency control, first, a signal acquisition card, oscilloscope or FPGA can be used to interfere with a dual optical frequency comb signal I₀(t) and an error signal E₁(t) and E₂(t) ADC sampling is performed. In the signal conditioning stage, the error signal is filtered, the required double-optical-frequency comb longitudinal mode signal is extracted, and the signal is multiplexed into an analytic signal, so that the subsequent correction operation is facilitated. Finding interference peaks for the interference signal, every 2ⁿThe time length of the base frame is the reciprocal 1/delta f of the double-optical-frequency comb frequency difference_r. In the stage of error correction and coherent averaging, firstly, the error calculation and compensation are carried out on the interference signal distortion generated by the relative frequency noise of the double-optical-frequency comb light source, and the Hilbert transform is carried out on the two sampled channel error signals to obtain the radio frequency longitudinal mode frequency f_p1、f_p2And phase ditheringδf_p2(t) the time jitter δ τ is extracted by the following formula₀(t) and carrier envelope phase jitter

To dual optical frequency comb interference signal I₀(t) first, carrier envelope phase jitter is eliminated

Time jitter elimination by time domain resampling or interpolation

I₂(t)＝I₁(t-δτ₀(t))

I₂(t) is the interference signal recovered after the relative frequency jitter of the double optical frequency comb is completely corrected, at the moment, the interference signal recovers complete periodicity, only amplitude noise interference of types such as laser relative intensity noise, detector noise, sampling noise and the like is remained, and the interference signal can pass through the interference signal with the time length of 1/delta f_rBase frame ofCoherent averaging is performed to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. Calculating interference signals after m times of coherent averaging by adopting the following formula

The n-order cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer will be in the basic frameGeneration 2ⁿThe sub-frames, but the chirp introduced by the delay arms of the different optical paths of the optical fiber mach-zehnder interferometer is different, and the deviation between the actual length and the theoretical length results in a static time shift between the different sub-frames.

For this purpose, willDivided 2ⁿOne sub-frameFourier transform to obtain their phase spectrum P_i(f) Selecting the phase spectrum P of any one frame_k(f) For reference, the relative phase spectrum δ P of other frames is obtained_i(f)＝P_i(f)-P_k(f) For δ P_i(f) Performing polynomial fitting to obtain phase-frequency transfer function introduced by chirp and static time offsetDigital error correction using the following formula

After coherent averaging again, the final interference signal frame can be obtained

To pairFourier transform is carried out to obtain interference signal spectrum S_f(f) Frequency spectrum S calculated by dividing by reference arm interference signal_ref(f) Then, eliminating the background spectrum of the dual-optical frequency comb light source, eliminating the residual base line by using polynomial fitting to obtain the transmission spectrum T (f) of the tested sample, and transforming the frequency axis from the radio frequency domain to the optical frequency domain by adopting the following formula

Thus, an absorption spectrum T (upsilon) of the substance was obtained. According to Lambert beer's law

T(υ)＝e^-α(v)L

The broadband absorbance information alpha (v) of the tested sample can be calculated, and the information such as the material components, the concentration, the pressure intensity, the temperature and the like can be obtained through analysis methods such as nonlinear Voigt linear fitting and the like.

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The foregoing is a more detailed description of the invention in connection with specific/preferred embodiments and is not intended to limit the practice of the invention to those descriptions. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various substitutions and modifications can be made to the described embodiments without departing from the spirit of the invention, and these substitutions and modifications should be considered to fall within the scope of the invention. In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "preferred embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples" or the like are intended to mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Various embodiments or examples and features of various embodiments or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without contradiction. Although embodiments of the present invention and their advantages have been described in detail, it should be understood that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made herein without departing from the scope of the claims.