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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…

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We describe frequency stabilization of a laser at 707.202 nm wavelength using FM spectroscopy in a hollow cathode lamp. The laser is stabilized to the $^{88}$Sr metastable $^3\mathrm{P}_2$ to $^3\mathrm{S}_1$ optical transition. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Matthew A. Norcia , James K. Thompson

Optical injection locking of the repetition frequency of a quantum cascade laser frequency comb is demonstrated using an intensity modulated near-infrared light at 1.55 $\mu$m illuminating the front facet of the laser. Compared to the…

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 detailed studies of the effect of polarization on thermal-induced mode instability (MI) in ytterbium-doped fiber amplifiers. Based on a steady-state theoretical model, which takes both electric fields along the two principal axes…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-31 Rumao Tao , Pengfei Ma , Xiaolin Wang , Pu Zhou , Zejin Liu

Operating atom-interferometer gyroscopes outside a laboratory environment is challenging primarily owing to the instability of laser systems. To enhance the thermal stability of free-space laser systems, a compact laser system using fiber…

We experimentally demonstrate the realization of a half-polarization-maintaining (half-PM) fiber laser, in which mode-locking is provided by a reflective multimode-interference saturable absorber (SA). In the specially designed SA, linearly…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-28 Xuanyi Liu , Maolin Dai , Denghui Pan , Kaibin Lin , Boris A. Malomed , Qian Li , H. Y. Fu

We show that the emission of broad area semiconductor amplifiers and lasers can be efficiently stabilized by introducing, two-dimensional periodic modulations simultaneously on both the refractive index and the pump (gain-loss) profiles, in…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-04 W. W. Ahmed , S. Kumar , J. Medina , M. Botey , R. Herrero , K. Staliunas

We demonstrate phase and frequency stabilization of a diode laser at the thermal noise limit of a passive optical cavity. The system is compact and exploits a cavity design that reduces vibration sensitivity. The sub-Hz laser is…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. D. Ludlow , X. Huang* , M. Notcutt , T. Zanon , S. M. Foreman , M. M. Boyd , S. Blatt , J. Ye

We revisit the stabilization of ionization of atoms subjected to a superintense laser pulse using nonlinear dynamics. We provide an explanation for the lack of complete ionization at high intensity and for the decrease of the ionization…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-23 Michael Norman , C. Chandre , T. Uzer , Peijie Wang

We present and investigate different external cavity diode laser (ECDL) configurations for the manipulation of neutrals atoms, wavelength-stabilized by a narrow-band high transmission interference filter. A novel diode laser, providing high…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Gilowski , Ch. Schubert , M. Zaiser , W. Herr , T. Wübbena , T. Wendrich , T. Müller , E. M. Rasel , W. Ertmer

The entrainment (or locking) phenomenon, by which an oscillator adapts its natural rhythm to an external periodic signal, is well-known in physics, chemistry, biology, etc.; however, controlling an stochastic nonlinear system with a…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-20 J Tiana-Alsina , C Quintero-Quiroz , M. C. Torrent , C Masoller

We stabilize an ultraviolet diode laser system at 369.5 nm to the optical absorption signal from Yb+ ions in a hollow-cathode discharge lamp. The error signal for stabilization is obtained by Zeeman spectroscopy of the 3 GHz-wide absorption…

Optics · Physics 2008-08-19 E. W. Streed , T. J. Weinhold , D. Kielpinski

It is shown that the transverse Rayleigh Taylor like instability can be well stabilized by using elliptically polarized laser in the hole boring radiation pressure acceleration regime. The $\bm{J}\times\bm{B}$ effect of the laser will…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 Dong Wu , C. Y. Zheng , C. T. Zhou , X. Q. Yan , M. Y. Yu , X. T. He

In this work we perform polarization spectroscopy of erbium atoms in a hollow cathode lamp (HCL) for the stabilization of a diode laser to the 401-nm transition. We review the theory behind Doppler-free polarization spectroscopy,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Jackson Ang'ong'a , Bryce Gadway

Arm locking is one of the key technologies to suppress the laser phase noise in spaced-based gravitational waves observatories. Since arm locking was proposed, phase margin criterion was always used as the fundamental design strategy for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-12 Yi Zhang , Mingzhe Li , Tong Wang , Xinyi Zhao , Long Ma , Shaobo Fang , Ming Xin

We demonstrate a simple and robust methodology for measuring and analyzing the polarization impedance appearing at interface between electrodes and ionic solutions, in the frequency range from 1 to $10^6$ Hz. The method assumes no…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-15 Camelia Prodan , Corina Bot

We demonstrate a novel, robust and compact fiber laser mode-locked by nonlinear polarization evolution (NPE) in polarization-maintaining (PM) fibers. The reflectivity of the artificial saturable absorber (SA) is analyzed to explain the…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-30 Xuanyi Liu , Qian Li , Denghui Pan , Feng Ye , Boris A. Malomed , H. Y. Fu

We propose and demonstrate a laser frequency stabilization scheme which generates a dispersion-like tunable Doppler-free dichroic lock (TDFDL) signal. This signal offers a wide tuning range for lock point (i.e. zero-crossing) without…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Vivek Singh , V. B. Tiwari , S. R. Mishra , H. S. Rawat

We study optical cavity locking for laser stabilization through spatial modulation of the phase front of a light beam. A theoretical description of the underlying principle is developed for this method and special attention is paid to…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-18 Sheng Feng , Songqing You , Peng Yang , Fenglei Zhang , Yunlong Sun , Boya Xie