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We demonstrate an optical frequency comb based on an erbium-doped-fiber femtosecond laser with the nonlinear polarization evolution scheme. The repetition rate of the laser is about 209 MHz. By controlling an intra-cavity electro-optic…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-07 Y. Zhang , L. Yan , W. Zhao , S. Meng , S. Fan , L. Zhang , G. Guo , S. Zhang , H. Jiang

We report on experiments exploring Stark-tuned F\"orster resonances between Rydberg atoms with unprecedented resolution in the F\"orster defect. The individual resonances are expected to exhibit different angular dependencies, opening the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-01-31 J. Nipper , J. B. Balewski , A. T. Krupp , B. Butscher , R. Löw , T. Pfau

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

We present an ultrahigh-$Q$, solid-silica microrod resonator operated under ambient conditions that supports laser-fractional-frequency stabilization to the thermal-noise limit of $3 \times 10^{-13}$ and a linewidth of 62 Hz. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Wei Zhang , Fred Baynes , Scott A. Diddams , Scott B. Papp

As the third paper in the multiple-part series, we report the statistical properties of radio bursts detected from the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20201124A with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio telescope…

Ultra-cold atoms provide ideal platforms for interferometry. The macroscopic matter-wave property of ultra-cold atoms leads to large coherent length and long coherent time, which enable high accuracy and sensitivity to measurement. Here, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-25 Xiangyu Dong , Shengjie Jin , Hongmian Shui , Peng Peng , Xiaoji Zhou

We perform atom interferometry using the Zeeman sublevels of a spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensate of $^{87}$Rb. The observed fringes are strongly peaked, and fringe repetition rates higher than the fundamental Ramsey frequency are found in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Sadgrove , Y. Eto , S. Sekine , H. Suzuki , T. Hirano

We report the first experimental demonstration of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) in nuclear-spin transitions of $^{14}$N within nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond. It is shown that the STIRAP technique suppresses…

The repetition rate stabilization of an optical frequency comb based on diode-pumped solid-state laser technology is demonstrated using an intra-cavity electro-optic modulator. The large feedback bandwidth of such modulators allows…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-27 Nicolas Torcheboeuf , Gilles Buchs , Stefan Kundermann , Erwin Portuondo-Campa , Jonathan Bennès , Steve Lecomte

In this paper we show how to control the quantum laser atoms instability using IR radiation. The control can be achieved by controlling the scattering length constant via the infrared coupling constant. This method is applied in the scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. M. Castellano , H. Vinck

Two-photon processes that involve different sub-levels of the ground state of an atom, are highly sensitive to depopulation and decoherence within the ground state. For example, the spectral width of electromagnetically induced transparency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-12 M. Shuker , O. Firstenberg , Y. Sagi , A. Ben-kish , N. Davidson , A. Ron

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are intense radio flashes from the sky that are characterized by millisecond durations and Jansky-level flux densities. We carried out a statistical analysis on FRBs discovered. Their mean dispersion measure, after…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 LongBiao Li , YongFeng Huang , ZhiBin Zhang , Di Li , Bing Li

We demonstrate a technique to lock the frequency of a laser to a transition between two excited states in Rb vapor in the presence of a weak magnetic field. We use a ladder configuration from specific hyperfine sublevels of the 5S 1/2, 5P…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. E. Becerra , R. T. Willis , S. L. Rolston , L. A. Orozco

Ramsey spectroscopy, a fundamental tool in both basic science and practical applications, is inevitably subject to several detrimental effects. % Here we propose a symmetry-protected destructive many-body interferometry (SPDMBI) for Ramsey…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Sijie Chen , Jiahao Huang , Min Zhuang , Chaohong Lee

We present a new method for accurate mid-infrared frequency measurements and stabilization to a near-infrared ultra-stable frequency reference, transmitted with a long-distance fibre link and continuously monitored against state-of-the-art…

In a Rabi oscillation experiment with a superconducting qubit we show that a visibility in the qubit excited state population of more than 90 % can be attained. We perform a dispersive measurement of the qubit state by coupling the qubit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Wallraff , D. I. Schuster , A. Blais , L. Frunzio , J. Majer , S. M. Girvin , R. J. Schoelkopf

We report the frequency stabilization of an erbium-doped fiber distributed-feedback laser using an all-fiber based Michelson interferometer of large arm imbalance. The interferometer uses a 1 km SMF-28 optical fiber spool and an acousto…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-13 Fabien Kéfélian , Haifeng Jiang , Pierre Lemonde , Giorgio Santarelli

Traditional Ramsey spectroscopy has the frequency resolution $2\pi/T$, where $T$ is the time separation between two light fields. Using squeezed states and two-atom excitation joint detection, we present a new scheme achieving a higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Kenan Qu , G. S. Agarwal

We explore the uses of ultracold molecules as a platform for future experiments in the field of quantum simulation, focusing on two molecular species, $^{40}$Ca$^{19}$F and $^{87}$Rb$^{133}$Cs. We report the development of coherent quantum…

We present and analyze a method of laser frequency stabilization via steady-state patterns of spectral holes in Eu$^{3+}$:Y$_2$SiO$_5$. Three regions of spectral holes are created, spaced in frequency by the ground state hyperfine…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 Shon Cook , Till Rosenband , David R. Leibrandt