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We present a simple and effective method to implement an active stabilization of a diode laser with injection locking, which requires minimal user intervenes. The injection locked state of the diode laser is probed by a photodetector, of…

We present a current-modulation technique for diode-laser systems that is specifically designed for high-bandwidth laser-frequency stabilization and wideband frequency modulation with a flat transfer function. It consists of a dedicated…

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Deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) devices separate micrometer-scale particles in solution based on their size using a laminar microfluidic flow in an array of obstacles. We investigate array geometries with rational row-shift…

We report ultra-stable locking of a commercially available extended cavity diode laser to a vibration-insensitive high finesse Fabry-Perot cavity. A servo bandwidth of 2 MHz is demonstrated. The absolute stability of the diode laser after…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Y. N. Zhao , J. Zhang , J. Stuhler , G. Schuricht , F. Lison , Z. H. Lu , L. J. Wang

We present the design and performance characterization of an external cavity diode-laser system optimized for high stability, low passive spectral linewidth, low cost, and ease of in-house assembly. The main cavity body is machined from a…

Operating atom-interferometer gyroscopes outside a laboratory environment is challenging primarily owing to the instability of laser systems. To enhance the thermal stability of free-space laser systems, a compact laser system using fiber…

We present a compact laser frequency stabilization method by locking a 556 nm laser to a high-precision wavelength meter. Unlike traditional schemes that rely on optical cavities or atomic references, we stabilize the laser frequency via a…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-27 Mengde Gan , Haoyi Zhang , Xiaodong Tan , Jiaming Li , Le Luo

Chip-scale atomic devices built around micro-fabricated alkali vapor cells are at the forefront of compact metrology and atomic sensors. We demonstrate a micro-fabricated vapor cell that is actively-pumped to ultra-high-vacuum (UHV) to…

We report on the design and characterization of a low-temperature external cavity diode laser (ECDL) system for broad wavelength tuning. The performance achieved with multiple diode models addresses the scarcity of commercial red laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 William G. Tobias , Jason S. Rosenberg , Nicholas R. Hutzler , Kang-Kuen Ni

We demonstrate phase and frequency stabilization of a diode laser at the thermal noise limit of a passive optical cavity. The system is compact and exploits a cavity design that reduces vibration sensitivity. The sub-Hz laser is…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. D. Ludlow , X. Huang* , M. Notcutt , T. Zanon , S. M. Foreman , M. M. Boyd , S. Blatt , J. Ye

Achieving precise and adjustable control over laser frequency is an essential requirement in numerous applications such as precision spectroscopy, quantum control, and sensing. In many such applications it is desired to stabilize a laser…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Heleni Krelman , Ori Nefesh , Kfir Levi , Douglas G. Bopp , Songbai Kang , John E. Kitching , Liron Stern

Fields with frequencies below megahertz are challenging for Rydberg-atom-based measurements, due to the low-frequency electric field screening effect that is caused by the alkali-metal atoms adsorbed on the inner surface of the container.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Mingwei Lei , Meng Shi

Self-injection locking of a diode laser to a high-quality-factor microresonator is widely used for frequency stabilization and linewidth narrowing. We constructed several microresonator-based laser sources with measured instantaneous…

We demonstrated that an iodine stabilized Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR) diode based laser system lasing at a wavelength in close proximity to $\lambda = 633\,$nm could be used as an alternative laser source to the He-Ne lasers in both…

Laser power instability, encompassing random jitter and slow drift, severely limits the performance of optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) in detecting ultra-weak magnetic fields, especially in large-scale OPM arrays for…

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We report on a device to electronically stabilize the optical injection lock of a semiconductor diode laser. Our technique uses as discriminator the peak height of the laser's transmission signal on a scanning Fabry-Perot cavity and feeds…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Brendan Saxberg , Benjamin Plotkin-Swing , Subhadeep Gupta

The concept of Dielectric Laser Acceleration (DLA) provides highest gradients among non-plasma particle accelerators. However, stable beam transport and staging have not been shown experimentally yet. We present a scheme that confines the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Uwe Niedermayer , Thilo Egenolf , Oliver Boine-Frankenheim , Peter Hommelhoff

To meet the strain sensitivity requirements [1], [2] of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), the laser frequency and amplitude noise must initially be reduced by a factor of 1000 in the pre-stabilized portion of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Abbott , P. King

We present a painless, almost-free upgrade to present extended cavity diode lasers (ECDLs), which improves the long term mode-hop free performance by stabilizing the resonance of the internal cavity to the external cavity. This…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sheng-wey Chiow , Quan Long , Christoph Vo , Holger Mueller , Steven Chu

A low noise laser system for atom interferometry is realized with phase-locked fiber lasers, where the performance of the OPLL is greatly enhanced by the FEOM feedback loop and the narrow linewidths. The laser system demonstrated contribute…

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