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Advances in silicon photonics have resulted in rapidly increasing complexity of integrated circuits. New methods are desirable that allow direct characterization of individual optical components in-situ, without the need for additional…
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We introduce the first method to enable an optical amplification of a coherent Raman spectroscopy signal called radio frequency Doppler Raman spectroscopy. Doppler Raman measurements amplify the optical signals in coherent Raman…
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Spectra of spin-forbidden and spin-allowed transitions in the mixed b$^3\Pi_u$ ~ A$^1\Sigma_u^+$ state of Na$_2$ are measured separately by two-photon excitation using a single tunable dye laser. The two-photon excitation produces Na*(3p)…
Quantum lock-in amplification raises the detection sensitivity of magnetic fields to unprecedented levels by phase-locked pumping the Zeeman levels of a single trapped atom. However, random spin precessions limits the useful detection range…
We report on a novel detection system for collinear laser spectroscopy which provides an almost $4\pi$ solid angle for fluorescence photon detection by employing curved surface mirrors. Additional parabolic angular filters offer passive…
Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy provides unprecedented insight into cellular and subcellular structures. However, going "beyond the diffraction barrier" comes at a price since most far-field super-resolution imaging techniques…
Dual-comb spectroscopy (DCS) is useful for gas spectroscopy due to high potential of optical frequency comb (OFC). However, fast Fourier transform (FFT) calculation of a huge amount of temporal data spends significantly longer time than the…
We present a new method of laser frequency locking in which the feedback signal is directly proportional to the detuning from an atomic transition, even at detunings many times the natural linewidth of the transition. Our method is a form…