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We demonstrate a high-stability laser offset-frequency locking technique based on a balanced filter discriminator. The beat note between two 852 nm external-cavity diode lasers is down-converted in two parallel arms using local-oscillator…

We present a simple and flexible frequency offset locking scheme developed for high-field imaging of ultra-cold atoms which relies on commercially available RF electronics only. The main new ingredient is the use of the sharp amplitude…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-11-09 Graciana Puentes

Offset locking is a popular method for stabilizing laser frequency, which is crucial to many physics experiments. Wide range offset locks are desirable, as they increase the span of usable frequencies in an experiment. Here, we…

We present a standalone frequency-offset locking system for controlling narrow-linewidth lasers using off-the-shelf electronic components. We lock two frequency-doubled 1560 nm lasers to a stable primary laser operating at 780 nm via their…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 K. Shalaby , T. Hunt , S. Moir , P. Trottier , T. Reuschel , B. Barrett

We demonstrate a hybrid analog+digital electronic lock to stabilize a dynamically tunable rf offset between two lasers. Our method features an 80 MHz capture range, +/- 7 GHz tuning range, frequency agility of 1 MHz/microsecond, and low…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-05-13 Joshua Hughes , Chad Fertig

We demonstrated a frequency offset locking between two laser sources using a waveguide-type electro-optic modulator (EOM) with 10th-order sidebands for magneto-optical trapping of Fr atoms. The frequency locking error signal was…

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 a compact and robust device for simultaneous absolute frequency stabilization of three diode lasers whose carrier frequencies can be chosen freely relative to the reference. A rigid ULE multi-cavity block is employed, and,…

Laser synchronization is a technique that locks the wavelength of a free-running laser to that of the reference laser, thereby enabling synchronous changes in the wavelengths of the two lasers. This technique is of crucial importance in…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-23 Mingwen Zhu , Shangsu Ding , Tianwei Jiang , Jianming Shang , Song Yu , Bin Luo

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

We herein report a simultaneous frequency stabilization of two 780-nm external cavity diode lasers using a precision wavelength meter (WLM). The laser lock performance is characterized by the Allan deviation measurement in which we find…

Achieving precise and adjustable control over laser frequency is an essential requirement in numerous applications such as precision spectroscopy, quantum control, and sensing. In many such applications it is desired to stabilize a laser…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Heleni Krelman , Ori Nefesh , Kfir Levi , Douglas G. Bopp , Songbai Kang , John E. Kitching , Liron Stern

Hybrid integrated diode lasers based on combining semiconductor optical amplifiers with low-loss Si3N4-based feedback circuits enable great laser performance for advanced photonic circuits. In particular, using high-Q Si3N4 ring resonators…

Ultrastable lasers form the back bone of precision measurements in science and technology. Such lasers attain their stability through frequency locking to reference cavities. State-of-the-art locking performances to date had been achieved…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-10 Fritz Diorico , Artem Zhutov , Onur Hosten

We describe the injection locking of two infrared (794 nm) laser diodes which are each part of a frequency-doubled laser system. An acousto-optic modulator (AOM) in the injection path gives an offset of 1.6 GHz between the lasers for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 N. M. Linke , C. J. Ballance , D. M. Lucas

We present an experimental realization of the Optical Frequency Locked Loop (OFLL) applied to long-term frequency difference stabilization of broad-line DFB lasers. The presented design, based on an integrated phase-frequency detector chip,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-27 Michał Lipka , Michał Parniak , Wojciech Wasilewski

We demonstrate a new and efficient laser-locking technique that enables making large frequency jumps while keeping the laser in lock. A diode laser is locked at a variable offset from a Doppler-free spectral feature of rubidium vapor. This…

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…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Ratnapala , C. J. Vale , A. G. White , M. D. Harvey , N. Heckenberg , H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop

We stabilized the frequencies of two independent Nd:YAG lasers to two adjacent longitudinal modes of a high-finesse Fabry-P\'erot resonator and obtained a beat frequency instability of 6.3 mHz at an integration time of 40 s. Referred to a…

Optics · Physics 2012-12-19 Qun-Feng Chen , Alexander Nevsky , Stephan Schiller

We report long-term laser frequency stabilization using only the target laser and a pair of 5 m fiber interferometers, one as a frequency reference and the second as a sensitive thermometer to stabilize the frequency reference. When used to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-10 Jia Kong , Vito Giovanni Lucivero , Ricardo Jimenez-Martinez , Morgan W. Mitchell
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