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With Hg atoms confined in an optical lattice trap in the Lamb-Dicke regime, we obtain a spectral line at 265.6 nm in which the full-width at half-maximum is <15Hz. Here we lock an ultrastable laser to this ultranarrow clock transition and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 J. J. McFerran , D. V. Magalhaes , C. Mandache , J. Millo , W. Zhang , Y. Le Coq , G. Santarelli , S. Bize

We demonstrate a method for accurately locking the frequency of a continuous-wave laser to an optical frequency comb in conditions where the signal-to-noise ratio is low, too low to accommodate other methods. Our method is typically orders…

Frequency stabilization of laser light is crucial in both scientific and industrial applications. Technological developments now allow analog laser stabilization systems to be replaced with digital electronics such as field-programmable…

We present a versatile, inexpensive and simple optical phase lock for applications in atomic physics experiments. Thanks to all-digital phase detection and implementation of beat frequency pre-scaling, the apparatus requires no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-02 Jürgen Appel , Andrew MacRae , A. I. Lvovsky

This paper describes the Light-Shift Laser-Lock (LSLL) technique, a novel method intended for compact atomic clocks that greatly simplifies the laser setup by stabilizing the pumping-laser frequency to the atoms involved in the clock,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Claudio E. Calosso , Michele Gozzelino , Filippo Levi , Salvatore Micalizio

We have demonstrated the laser frequency offset locking via the Rb tripod-type double dark resonances electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) system. The influence of coupling fields power and detuning on the tripod-type EIT profile…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Kang Ying , Yueping Niu , Dijun Chen , Haiwen Cai , Ronghui Qu , Shangqing Gong

We demonstrate laser frequency stabilization with at least 6 GHz of offset tunability using an in-phase/quadrature (IQ) modulator to generate electronic sidebands (ESB) on a titanium sapphire laser at 714 nm and we apply this technique to…

We present absolute frequency measurements of a laser stabilized using an offset sideband locking technique on the P(49)24-1 rovibrational transition of $^{127}\mathrm{I}_2$ near 556 nm. The P(49)24-1 transition is offset by 4.8 GHz from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-18 Martin Hauden , Jacques Millo , Martina Matusko , Francisco S Ponciano Ojeda , Yann Kersalé , Marion Delehaye

We present and characterize a laser system for the spectroscopy on highly-charged ^209Bi^82+ ions at a wavelength of 243.87 nm. For absolute frequency stabilization, the laser system is locked to a near-infra-red laser stabilized to a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-09-12 S. Albrecht , S. Altenburg , C. Siegel , N. Herschbach , G. Birkl

We report on the development of a frequency modulatable 795 nm semiconductor laser based on self-injection locking to a high quality factor whispering gallery mode microresonator. The laser is characterized with residual amplitude…

We report a simple technique for stabilization of a laser frequency at the wings of an atomic resonance. The reference signal used for stabilization issues from interference effects obtained in a low-quality cavity filled with a resonant…

We report in detail the design process and performance of an auto-locking ultra-stable laser with sub-hertz linewidth at the first time. The laser frequency is automatically stabilized to an optical reference cavity with a home-made…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-22 D. Jiao , G. Xu , J. Gao , X. Deng , J. Liu , Q. Zang , X. Zhang , R. Dong , T. Liu , S. Zhang

Two cw single-mode violet (397nm) diode lasers are locked to a single external-cavity master diode laser by optical injection locking. A double-pass 1.6GHz acousto-optic modulator is used to provide a 3.2GHz offset frequency between the two…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-25 B. C. Keitch , N. R. Thomas , D. M. Lucas

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable direct observations of low-frequency gravitational waves, offering unprecedented insight into astrophysical and cosmological phenomena. LISA's heterodyne interferometric measurement…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-26 Gerhard Heinzel , Javier Álvarez-Vizoso , Miguel Dovale-Álvarez

We demonstrate phase lock of two >1.6W Titanium:sapphire lasers with a phase noise of -138dBc/Hz at 1MHz from the carrier, using an intra-cavity electro-optic phase modulator. The residual phase variance is 2.5 10^(-8)rad^2 integrated from…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Holger Mueller , Sheng-wey Chiow , Quan Long , Steven Chu

Frequency locking between coupled laser systems provides a powerful mechanism for stabilizing and controlling coherent emission, yet its implementation and applicability down to the nanoscale remains unknown and unexplored. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-05 Ann-Kathrin Kollak , Lukas R. Jäger , Hark Hoe Tan , Carsten Ronning

We report a laser noise reduction method by locking it to an actively stabilized fiber-based Mach Zehnder interferometer with 10 km optical fiber to achieve large arm imbalance. An acousto optic modulator is used for interferometer…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-08 Dawei Li , Cheng Qian , Shanglin Li , Zhengbin Li , Jianye Zhao

To achieve sub-picometer sensitivities in the millihertz band, laser interferometric inertial sensors rely on some form of reduction of the laser frequency noise, typically by locking the laser to a stable frequency reference, such as the…

This paper shows the experimental details of the stabilization scheme that allows full control of the repetition rate and the carrier-envelope offset frequency of a 10 GHz frequency comb based on a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Dirk C. Heinecke , Albrecht Bartels , Scott A. Diddams

We report on phase-locking of two continuous wave infrared laser sources separated by 100 THz emitting around 1029 nm and 1544 nm respectively. Our approach uses three independent harmonic generation processes of the IR laser frequencies in…