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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…
Laser frequency combs are coherent light sources that emit a broad spectrum consisting of discrete, evenly spaced narrow lines, each having an absolute frequency measurable within the accuracy of an atomic clock. Their development, a decade…
The mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectral range is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum in which most of the molecules have vibrational and rotational resonances. Ge-based photonic integrated circuits in this wavelength range have thus seen a…
We describe a tunable broadband mid-infrared laser source based on difference-frequency mixing of a 100 MHz femtosecond Yb:fiber laser oscillator and a Raman-shifted soliton generated with the same laser. The resulting light is tunable over…
A concept for continuously tunable titanium-sapphire (Ti:Sa) lasers using dispersion prisms is under investigation for the ARIEL (Advanced Rare IsotopE Laboratory) laser ion source at TRIUMF (Canada's particle accelerator center).…
We report on a mid-infrared mode-locked fiber laser that uses an acousto-optic tunable filter to achieve frequency-shifted feedback pulse generation with frequency tuning over a 215 nm range. The laser operates on the 3.5 ${\mu}$m…
Chaos lidars detect targets through the cross-correlation between the back-scattered chaos signal from the target and the local reference one. Chaos lidars have excellent anti-jamming and anti-interference capabilities, owing to the random…
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