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Precise wavelength calibration is a critical issue for high-resolution spectroscopic observations. The ideal calibration source should be able to provide a very stable and dense grid of evenly distributed spectral lines of constant…

We optimize theoretically and experimentally the performances of the recently demonstrated modulation transfer protocol [D.-A. Trinh, K. V. Adwaith, M. Branco, A. Rouxel, S. Welinski, P. Berger, F. Goldfarb, and F. Bretenaker, Applied…

Using a mid-infrared quantum cascade laser and wavelength modulation absorption spectroscopy, we measure the frequencies of ro-vibrational transitions of N$_2$O in the 17 $\mu$m region with uncertainties below 5 MHz. These lines,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Y. Wang , J. Rodewald , O. Lopez , M. Manceau , B. Darquié , B. E. Sauer , M. R. Tarbutt

A fundamental limit to the stability of a single-ion optical frequency standard is set by quantum noise in the measurement of the internal state of the ion. We discuss how the interrogation sequence and the processing of the atomic…

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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

Active frequency stabilization of a laser to an atomic or molecular resonance underpins many modern-day AMO physics experiments. With a flat background and high signal-to-noise ratio, modulation transfer spectroscopy (MTS) offers an…

In this letter, we propose a modulation classification algorithm which is based on the received signal's amplitude for coherent optical receivers. The proposed algorithm classifies the modulation format from several possible candidates by…

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We present a method of frequency stabilizing a broadband etalon that can serve as a high-precision wavelength calibrator for an Echelle spectrograph. Using a laser to probe the Doppler-free saturated absorption of the rubidium D2 line, we…

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In this paper, we present an experimental study of the metrological stabilization of a solid-state frequency comb for embedded metrology applications. The comb is a passively mode-locked laser diode based on InGaAs/InP Quantum-dash…

We experimentally demonstrate the joint optimization of transmitter and receiver parameters in directly modulated laser systems, showing superior performance compared to nonlinear receiver-only equalization while using fewer memory taps,…

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We present a compact laser frequency stabilization method by locking a 556 nm laser to a high-precision wavelength meter. Unlike traditional schemes that rely on optical cavities or atomic references, we stabilize the laser frequency via a…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-27 Mengde Gan , Haoyi Zhang , Xiaodong Tan , Jiaming Li , Le Luo

We demonstrate stabilisation of an ultraviolet diode laser via Doppler free spectroscopy of Ytterbium ions in a discharge. Our technique employs polarization spectroscopy, which produces a natural dispersive lineshape whose zero-crossing is…

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The conversion of the modulation signal from the coupling light to the probe light and the conversion of the additional phase noise from the coupling light to the amplitude noise of the probe light in the electromagnetically induced…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-13 Hou Jinghua , Su Nan , Liu Yao , Liu Zhihui , Zhang Yuchi , He Jun

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…

The statistical properties of a radiation sources are commonly characterized by second-order-correlation or Mandel parameter. Our research found that the single photons modulation spectrum provides us another optional way which is more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Jianyong Hu , Bo Yu , Mingyong Jing , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia

We report on a simple and robust technique to generate a dispersive signal which serves as an error signal to electronically stabilize a monomode cw laser emitting around an atomic resonance. We explore nonlinear effects in the laser beam…

We provide a numerical proof of concept of a stabilization mechanism for BAS laser sources. The scheme is based on the simultaneous introduction of in-phase two-dimensional modulations on the refractive index and pump (gain). We numerically…

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Self-injection locking is a dynamic phenomenon representing stabilization of the emission frequency of an oscillator with a passive cavity enabling frequency filtered coherent feedback to the oscillator cavity. For instance, self-injection…

We present a stabilized microwave-frequency transfer technique that is based on optical phase-sensing and optical phase-actuation. This technique shares several attributes with optical-frequency transfer and therefore exhibits several…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-12 Sascha Schediwy , David Gozzard , Simon Stobie , Jocias Malan , Keith Grainge