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We have implemented a simple and cost-effective digital system for long-term frequency stabilisation and locking to an arbitrary wavelength of the single-frequency ring CW Ti:Sapphire laser. This system is built around two confocal…

Optical lattices formed by interfering laser beams are widely used to trap and manipulate atoms for quantum simulation, metrology, and computation. To stabilize optical lattices in experiments, it is usually challenging to implement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yirong Wang , Xiaoyu Dai , Xue Zhao , Guangren Sun , Kuiyi Gao , Wei Zhang

We report on the development of a diode laser system - the `Faraday laser' - using an atomic Faraday filter as the frequency-selective element. In contrast to typical external-cavity diode laser systems which offer tunable output frequency…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 James Keaveney , William J Hamlyn , Charles S Adams , Ifan G Hughes

We demonstrate laser frequency stabilization using a high-Q MgF2 crystalline whispering gallery mode resonator coupled with a tapered fiber. We discovered that the tapered fiber, acting as a microcantilever, exhibits mechanical resonance…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-06 Yaohui Xu , Xiaolan Liu , Wujun Li , Haotian Wang , Jun Guo , Jie Ma , Jianing Zhang , Deyuan Shen

Many experiments in atomic and molecular physics require simultaneous frequency stabilization of multiple lasers. We present a stabilization scheme based on a scanning transfer cavity lock that is simple, stable and easily scalable to many…

We report long-term laser frequency stabilization using only the target laser and a pair of 5 m fiber interferometers, one as a frequency reference and the second as a sensitive thermometer to stabilize the frequency reference. When used to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-10 Jia Kong , Vito Giovanni Lucivero , Ricardo Jimenez-Martinez , Morgan W. Mitchell

Arm-locking frequency stabilization is a key technique for suppressing laser frequency noise in space-based gravitational-wave detectors. The robustness of the arm-locking control loop is crucial for maintaining laser frequency stability,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Yongbin Shao , Xinyi Zhao , Long Ma , Ming Xin

An experimental method is developed for the robust frequency stabilization using a high-finesse cavity when the laser exhibits large intermittent frequency jumps. This is accomplished by applying an additional slow feedback signal from…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-06 Won-Kyu Lee , Chang Yong Park , Myoung-Sun Heo , Dai-Hyuk Yu , Huidong Kim

Offset locking is a popular method for stabilizing laser frequency, which is crucial to many physics experiments. Wide range offset locks are desirable, as they increase the span of usable frequencies in an experiment. Here, we…

Modern experiments in quantum metrology, sensing, and quantum computing require precise control of the state of atoms and molecules, achieved through the use of highly stable lasers and microwave generators with low phase noise. One of the…

We have frequency stabilized a Coherent CR699-21 dye laser to a transient spectral hole on the 606 nm transition in Pr^{+3}:Y_2SiO_5. A frequency stability of 1 kHz has been obtained on the 10 microsecond timescale together with a long-term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 L. Rippe , B. Julsgaard , A. Walther , S. Kröll

State-of-the-art laser frequency stabilization is limited by miniscule length changes caused by thermal noise. In this work, a cavity-length-insensitive frequency stabilization scheme is implemented using strong dispersion in a…

A ring laser is defined by its perimeter, which directly enters the conversion factor between measured Sagnac frequency and the actual rotation rate. Large ring lasers employed in geodesy and fundamental physics require stability of the…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-13 Jannik Zenner , Karl Ulrich Schreiber , Simon Stellmer

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

With Hg atoms confined in an optical lattice trap in the Lamb-Dicke regime, we obtain a spectral line at 265.6 nm in which the full-width at half-maximum is <15Hz. Here we lock an ultrastable laser to this ultranarrow clock transition and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 J. J. McFerran , D. V. Magalhaes , C. Mandache , J. Millo , W. Zhang , Y. Le Coq , G. Santarelli , S. Bize

To meet the requirements of time-frequency networks and enable frequency downloadability for nodes along the link, we demonstrated the extraction of stable frequency signals at nodes using a mode-locked laser under the condition of 100 km…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-19 Ziyi Jin , Ziyang Chen , Kai Wu , Dongrui Yu , Guohua Wu , Song Yu , Bin Luo , Hong Guo

We present the first experimental confirmation of the so-called "self-phaselocked delay interferometry". This laser frequency stabilization technique consists basically in comparing the prompt laser signal with a delayed version of itself…

We present a new method of laser frequency locking in which the feedback signal is directly proportional to the detuning from an atomic transition, even at detunings many times the natural linewidth of the transition. Our method is a form…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Ratnapala , C. J. Vale , A. G. White , M. D. Harvey , N. Heckenberg , H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Hybrid integrated diode lasers based on combining semiconductor optical amplifiers with low-loss Si3N4-based feedback circuits enable great laser performance for advanced photonic circuits. In particular, using high-Q Si3N4 ring resonators…

In a wide range of quantum technology applications, ranging from atomic clocks to the creation of ultracold or quantum degenerate samples for atom interferometry, optimal laser sources are critical. In particular, two phase-locked laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Nicola Agnew , David Lowit , Aidan S. Arnold