Workshop Overview:
The goal of this workshop is to formulate space applications and mission concepts enabled by optical frequency comb technology and to identify high priority technology challenges and gaps that need to be addressed to implement these missions. Through the study program, we will develop a critical path forward for developing space qualified optical frequency comb systems.
This program would bring together a diverse group of technical experts in optical frequency comb technology, space application specialists, and potential customers in the areas of astronomy and astrophysics, navigation, laser interferometry, earth and planetary science, and instrumentation development. In doing so, it will help to foster new collaborations that will lead to extraordinary new capabilities and previously unachievable missions for NASA enabled by space-based optical frequency combs.
Specific deliverable goals for the program are to:
- Clearly identify 2-3 high-payoff mission concepts with enough fidelity to allow for Team X or Team I to conduct a follow-on study where a mission pointdesign could be detailed.
- Prioritize critical areas for frequency comb subsystem technology development needed for space applications and not currently being addressed by other agencies; make recommendations for follow-on studies.
- Create lasting, productive collaborations between frequency comb technologists and space science and technology specialists.
Team Leads
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Caltech
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Stephanie Leifer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Nan Yu
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Scott Diddams
NIST
The study program schedule is available in .pdf here
- Geoffrey Blake — Caltech Campus
- John Burke — Air Force Research Laboratory
- Kerri Cahoy — MIT
- Pin Chen — JPL/Caltech
- Scott Diddams — National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Ethan Elliott — JPL/Caltech
- Debra Fischer — Yale University
- Christian Frankenberg — Caltech Campus
- Alexander Gaeta — Columbia University
- Ivan Grudinin — JPL/Caltech
- John Hall — University of Colorado
- Gregg Hallinan — Caltech Campus
- Ronald Holzwarth — Menlo Systems GmbH
- Tobias Kippenberg — EPFL
- Stephanie Leifer — JPL/Caltech
- Holly Leopardi — NIST, University of Colorado Boulder
- William Loh — NIST
- Lute Maleki — OEwaves, Inc.
- Dimitri Mawet — Caltech Campus
- Tyler McCracken — Yale University
- Nathan Newbury — NIST
- Mitchio Okumura — Caltech Campus
- Scott Papp — NIST
- Michael Shao — JPL/Caltech
- Massimo Tinto — JPL/Caltech
- Slava Turyshev — JPL/Caltech
- Kerry Vahala — Caltech Campus
- Gautam Vasisht — JPL/Caltech
- Carl Weimer — Ball Aerospace & Technologies
- Qifan Yang — Caltech Campus
- Xu Yi — Caltech Campus
- Nan Yu — JPL/Caltech
Presentations
| Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| S. Diddams | National Institute of Standards and Technology | Fundamentals of frequency combs: What they are and how they work (8.47 MB .pdf) (video) |
| N. Newbury | National Institute of Standards and Technology | Applications of Frequency Combs (12.3 MB .pdf) (video) |
| M. Shao | JPL/Caltech | Space Flight Considerations for Precision Optical Instruments (1011 KB .pdf) (video) |
| C. Weimer | Ball Aerospace & Technologies | From the Lab to Space: Comments on Instrument Qualification (5.65 MB .pdf) (video) |
| G. Blake | Caltech | Remote Sensing/In Situ Space Applications of TeraHertz (THz )Frequency Combs (7.3 MB .pdf) |
| J. Burke | Air Force Research Laboratory | A Space Based Timing Infrastructure using Frequency Combs (869 KB .pdf) |
| K. Cahoy | MIT | Weather Sensing and Laser Communications for Nanosatellites (4.8 MB .pdf) |
| D. Fischer | Yale University | Exoplanets (7.8 MB .pdf) |
| A. Gaeta | Columbia University | Chip-Based Optical Frequency Combs (5.6 MB .pdf) |
| I. Grudinin | JPL | Towards direct generation of wide coherent microcombs with photonic belt resonators (1.7 MB .pdf) |
| T. Kippenberg | EPFL | Microresonator based Optical Frequency Combs (5.4 MB .pdf) |
| L. Maleki | OEwaves, Inc. | Kerr Frequency Combs: from Laboratory to Space (14.9 MB .pdf) |
| S. Papp and S. Diddams | NIST | Self-referencing electro-optic frequency combs (6.9 MB .pdf) |
| M. Tinto | JPL | Space-based gravitational wave interferometry with optical frequency comb (729 KB .pdf) |
| G. Vasisht | JPL | The Planet Formation Imager (PFI) – Mid IR Frequency Combs for Heterodyne (Astronomical) Interferometry (36 MB .pdf) |
| T. McCracken | Yale University | EXPRES – the EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph (13.2 MB .pdf) (4.7 MB .pdf) |
| Q. Yang and X. Yi | Caltech | Soliton frequency comb at microwave rates in a high-Q silica micro-resonator (6.6 MB .pdf) |
| X. Yi and K. Vahala | Caltech | Demonstration of near-IR line-referenced electro-optical laser comb for precision radial velocity measurement in astronomy (2.2 MB .pdf) |
