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It is demonstrated that RF current modulation of a frequency stabilized injection-locked diode laser allows the stabilization of an optical cavity to adjustable lengths, by variation of the RF frequency. This transfer cavity may be used to…

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A narrow-bandwidth actively mode-locked laser using a Cr:ZnS gain medium has been successfully demonstrated. A free-space electro-optic phase modulator is employed in the solid-state laser resonator to achieve frequency-modulation (FM)…

Two qualitatively different kinds of resonant destabilization of phonon stimulated emission (SE) are experimentally revealed for periodically forced multimode ruby phaser (phonon laser) operating at SE frequencies about 9 GHz, i.e. at…

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We theoretically study the laser cooling of cavity optomechanics when the mechanical resonance frequency and damping depend on time. In the regime of weak optomechanical coupling we extend the theory of laser cooling using an adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 Marc Bienert , Pablo Barberis-Blostein

We demonstrate a technique for locking the frequency of a tunable diode laser to a ring-cavity resonator. The resonator is stabilized to a diode laser which is in turn locked to an atomic transition, thus giving it absolute frequency…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ayan Banerjee , Dipankar Das , Umakant D. Rapol , Vasant Natarajan

A thin atomic gas in an optical resonator exhibits a phase transition from a homogeneous density to crystalline order when laser illuminated orthogonal to the resonator axis. We study this well-known self-organization phenomenon for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Valentin Torggler , Ivor Krešić , Ticijana Ban , Helmut Ritsch

We demonstrate a new method of light phase shift measurement using a high-finesse optical ring cavity which exhibits reduced phase noise due to cavity length fluctuations. Two laser beams with a frequency difference of one cavity free…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Enlong Wang , Gunjan Verma , Jonathan N. Tinsley , Nicola Poli , Leonardo Salvi

We present numerical simulations of the dynamics of two-dimensional Josephson junction arrays to study the mechanism of mutual phase locking. We show that in the presence of an external magnetic field two mechanisms are playing a role in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 W. Krech , K. Yu. Platov

We probe the physical mechanism behind the known phenomenon of power synchronization of two diode lasers that are mutually coupled via their delayed optical fields. In a diode laser, the amplitude and the phase of the optical field are…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Vishwa Pal , Awadhesh Prasad , R Ghosh

The phase diagram of the fully frustrated XY model on a honeycomb lattice is shown to incorporate three different ordered phases. In the most unusual of them, a long-range order is related not to the dominance of a particular periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-05 S. E. Korshunov

As dual combs play a significant role in numerous high-precision measurements, their efficient generation has been widely researched. Although the single-cavity dual-comb generation can avoid the complex active stabilization methods,…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-02 Pan Guo , Yuan Gao , Yongjie Pu , Zhigang Zhao , Zhenhua Cong , Sha Wang

We present a method of phase-locking any number of continuous-wave lasers to an optical frequency comb (OFC) that enables independent frequency positioning and control of each laser while still maintaining lock to the OFC. The scheme…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 Will Gunton , Mariusz Semczuk , Kirk W. Madison

We report the first experimental observation of discrete time-crystal phases and crystallites in an actively mode-locked semiconductor laser. By tuning either the bias current or the modulation frequency, the system undergoes a spontaneous…

We propose a straightforward mechanism for achieving unique $k$-space resonance modes in one-dimensional time-varying cavities where periodic temporal modulation creates momentum band gaps through Floquet dynamics. By engineering the…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-18 Zhou Bo , Guo Xianmin , Feng Xinsong , Chen Hongsheng , Wang Zuojia

We review the conventional phase-locking technique in the long-term stabilization of the mode-locked fiber laser and investigate the phase noise limitation of the conventional technique. To break the limitation, we propose an improved…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-12 Dong Hou , Bo Ning , Shuangyou Zhang , Jiutao Wu , Jianye Zhao

Predictively steering self-organising systems with hierarchical structure toward intended outcomes across widely separated dynamical scales remains a fundamental challenge. Despite decades of progress, hierarchy remains a descriptive…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-17 Aladin Şura , F. Ömer Ilday

Bloch oscillations (BOs) refer to a periodically oscillatory motion of particle in lattice systems driven by a constant force. By temporally modulating acoustic waveguides, BOs can be generalized from spatial to frequency domain, opening…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Chengzhi Qin , Yugui Peng , Ying Li , Xuefeng Zhu , Bing Wang , Cheng-Wei Qiu , Peixiang Lu

Two-dimensional (2D) laser arrays are shown to be achievable at a large scale by exploiting the interplay of higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) physics and the so-called non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). The higher-order topology…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-23 Wei Xin Teo , Weiwei Zhu , Jiangbin Gong

We experimentally study forced and self oscillations of an optomechanical cavity which is formed between a fiber Bragg grating that serves as a static mirror and between a freely suspended metallic mechanical resonator that serves as a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Zaitsev , A. K. Pandey , O. Shtempluck , E. Buks

In this paper we present a theory that predicts the phase noise characteristics of self-sustained optomechanical oscillators. By treating the cavity optomechanical system as a feedback loop consisting of an optical cavity and a mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 King Yan Fong , Menno Poot , Xu Han , Hong X. Tang