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This paper presents a novel method for laser frequency stabilisation in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission by locking a laser to two stable length references - the arms of the interferometer and an on-board optical…

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We demonstrate a self-homodyne detection method to stabilize a continuous-wave 1550-nm laser to a 1-km optical fiber delay line, achieving a frequency instability of 6.3x10<sup>-15</sup> at a 16-ms averaging time. This result, limited by…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-10 Igju Jeon , Woosong Jeong , Changmin Ahn , Jungwon Kim

Low frequency high precision laser interferometry is subject to excess laser-frequency-noise coupling via arm-length differences which is commonly mitigated by locking the frequency to a stable reference system. This approach is crucial to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-01 Oliver Gerberding , Katharina-Sophie Isleif , Moritz Mehmet , Karsten Danzmann , Gerhard Heinzel

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…

We report on a design of a compact laser system composed of an extended cavity diode laser with high passive stability and a pre-filter Fabri-Perot cavity. The laser is frequency stabilized relative to the cavity using a serrodyne technique…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-20 Emil Kirilov , Manfred J. Mark , Maximilian Segl , Hanns-Christoph Nägerl

We present a transportable ultra-stable clock laser system based on a Fabry-P\'erot cavity with crystalline Al$_{0.92}$Ga$_{0.08}$As/GaAs mirror coatings, fused silica (FS) mirror substrates and a 20~cm-long ultra-low expansion…

We present a design for an ultra-stable cryogenically cooled sapphire optical cavity system, with fractional frequency stability better than 1 x 10^-16 at one second integration time. We plan to use such ultra-stable cavities to perform a…

Optics · Physics 2011-12-16 M. Nagel , A. Peters

We report in detail the design process and performance of an auto-locking ultra-stable laser with sub-hertz linewidth at the first time. The laser frequency is automatically stabilized to an optical reference cavity with a home-made…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-22 D. Jiao , G. Xu , J. Gao , X. Deng , J. Liu , Q. Zang , X. Zhang , R. Dong , T. Liu , S. Zhang

Cavity nonlinear optics enables intriguing physical phenomena to occur at micro- or nano-scales with modest input powers. While this enhances capabilities in applications such as comb generation, frequency conversion and quantum optics,…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-11 Joshua B. Surya , Juanjuan Lu , Yuntao Xu , Hong X. Tang

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 demonstrate a vacuum-gap ultrastable optical reference cavity that does not require a vacuum enclosure. Our simple method of optical contact bonding in a vacuum environment allows for cavity operation in air while maintaining vacuum…

The design of highly wavelength tunable semiconductor laser structures is presented. The system is based on a one dimensional photonic crystal cavity consisting of two patterned, doubly-clamped nanobeams, otherwise known as a "zipper"…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-22 Thiago P. Mayer Alegre , Raviv Perahia , Oskar Painter

Two-color lasers with high coherence are paramount in precision measurement, accurate light-matter interaction, and low-noise photonic microwave generation. However, conventional two-color lasers often suffer from low coherence,…

We present a first experimental characterization of our ultra-compact, ultra-stable laser. The heart of the apparatus is an original Fabry-Perot cavity with a 25 mm length and a pyramidal geometry, equipped with highly-reflective…

In this work, we investigate the steady-states of a fiber lasers mode-locked with a nonlinear amplifying loop-mirror that has an inherent amplitude noise-suppression mechanism. Due to the interaction of the sinusoidal transmission function…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-21 Marvin Edelmann , Yi Hua , Kemal Şafak , Franz X. Kärtner

We demonstrate a powerful tool for high-resolution mid-IR spectroscopy and frequency metrology with quantum cascade lasers (QCLs). We have implemented frequency stabilization of a QCL to an ultra-low expansion (ULE) reference cavity, via…

We demonstrate a simple, compact, and cost-effective laser noise reduction method for stabilizing an extended cavity diode laser to a 3x105 finesse mirror Fabry-P\'erot (F-P) cavity corresponding to resonance linewidth of 10 kHz using a…

A fiber laser is stabilized using a Calcium Fluoride (CaF2) whispering-gallery-mode resonator. It is set up using a semiconductor optical amplifier as a gain medium. The resonator is critically coupled through prisms, and used as a…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-02 B. Sprenger , H. G. L. Schwefel , Z. H. Lu , S. Svitlov , L. J. Wang

Precision applications including quantum computing and sensing, mmWave/RF generation, and metrology, demand widely tunable, ultra-low phase noise lasers. Today, these experiments employ table-scale systems with bulk-optics and isolators to…

We demonstrate two-stage laser stabilization based on a combination of Fabry- Perot and spectral-hole burning techniques. The laser is first pre-stabilized by the Fabry-Perot cavity to a fractional-frequency stability of sigma_y(tau) <…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Michael J. Thorpe , Lars Rippe , Tara M. Fortier , Matthew S. Kirchner , Till Rosenband