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We describe and experimentally evaluate a stabilized radio-frequency transfer technique that employs optical phase sensing and optical phase actuation. This technique can be achieved by modifying existing stabilized optical frequency…

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We report on the realization of high-performance silica integrated two-dimensional lens assisted beam-steering (LABS) arrays along with the first-of-their-kind point-to-multiplepoint optical frequency transfer. {The LABS equips with $N$…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-07 Liang Hu , Ruimin Xue , Xianyi Cao , Jiao Liu , Kan Wu , Guiling Wu , Jianping Chen

An optical technique based on stability transfer among modes of a monolithic optical microresonator is proposed for long therm frequency stabilization of a radiofrequency (RF) oscillator. We show that locking two resonator modes,…

Providing an accurate, representative sample of mass flux across large open areas for atmospheric studies or the extreme conditions of a hypersonic engine is challenging for traditional intrusive or point-based sensors. Here, we demonstrate…

Length changes due to thermo-mechanical noise originating from, for example, Brownian motion are a key limiting factor of present day state-of-the-art laser frequency stabilization using Fabry-P\'erot cavities. We present a laser-frequency…

To obtain a high degree of long-term length stabilisation of an optical reference cavity, its free-spectral range is locked by means of an accurate and stable frequency synthesizer. The locking scheme is twofold: a laser is locked on the…

We report an investigation of laser frequency stabilization using a whispering gallery mode resonator that is temperature stabilized by a dual-mode technique. This dual-mode technique has yielded mode volume temperature instabilities at the…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-01 Lukas M. Baumgartel , Robert J. Thompson , Nan Yu

In this paper possibilities of a stabilization of large amplitude fluctuations in an intracavity-doubled solid-state laser are studied. The modification of the cross-saturation coefficient by the effect of spatial hole-burning is taken into…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Monika E. Pietrzyk , Miltcho B. Danailov

We present a compact all-digital implementation of a scanning transfer cavity lock (STCL) for long-term laser frequency stabilization. An interrupt-driven state machine is employed to realize the STCL, with the capability to correct for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-24 S. Subhankar , A. Restelli , Y. Wang , S. L. Rolston , J. V. Porto

Central frequency is a key parameter of storage rings. This paper presents the measurement of central frequency of the HLS-II storage ring using the sextupole modulation method. Firstly, the basis of central frequency measurement of the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Jiajun Zheng , Yongliang Yang , Baogen Sun , Fangfang Wu , Chaocai Cheng , Kai Tang

We introduce a simple and robust scheme for optical frequency transfer of an ultra-stable source light field via an optical frequency comb to a field at a target optical frequency, where highest stability is required, e.g. for the…

To reach sub-picometer sensitivity in the millihertz range, displacement sensors based on laser interferometry require suppression of laser-frequency noise by several orders of magnitude. Many optical frequency stabilization methods exist…

We stabilise a microwave oscillator at 9.6 GHz to an optical clock laser at 344 THz by using a fibre-based femtosecond laser frequency comb as a transfer oscillator. With a second frequency comb we measure independently the instability of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-09-15 B. Lipphardt , G. Grosche , U. Sterr , Chr. Tamm , S. Weyers , H. Schnatz

Ultra-low-noise stabilized lasers are a fundamental tool for precision quantum technologies, optical clocks, microwave and millimeter-wave generation, and fiber sensing. Existing systems rely on table-top bulk-optic components -- discrete…

We present a spectroscopy scheme for the 7-kHz-wide 689-nm intercombination line of strontium. We rely on shelving detection, where electrons are first excited to a metastable state by the spectroscopy laser before their state is probed…

To achieve sub-picometer sensitivities in the millihertz band, laser interferometric inertial sensors rely on some form of reduction of the laser frequency noise, typically by locking the laser to a stable frequency reference, such as the…

The resonant modes of optical cavities provide a powerful resource for laser-frequency stabilization, underpinning high-precision metrology and coherent signal generation. Photonic resonators in which the optical mode propagates through…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-12 Lindell M. Williams , Grant M. Brodnik , Scott B. Papp

We report a laser noise reduction method by locking it to an actively stabilized fiber-based Mach Zehnder interferometer with 10 km optical fiber to achieve large arm imbalance. An acousto optic modulator is used for interferometer…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-08 Dawei Li , Cheng Qian , Shanglin Li , Zhengbin Li , Jianye Zhao

Optical frequency combs, coherent light sources that connect optical frequencies with microwave oscillations, have become the enabling tool for precision spectroscopy, optical clockwork and attosecond physics over the past decades. Current…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-21 S. -W. Huang , J. Yang , M. Yu , B. H. McGuyer , D. -L. Kwong , T. Zelevinsky , C. W. Wong

Frequency comb spectroscopy has significantly advanced molecular spectroscopy across scientific research and diverse applications. Among its key performance metrics especially for time-resolved studies, sensitivity and measurement speed are…