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We demonstrate lasing into counter-propagating modes of a ring cavity using a gas of cold atoms as a gain medium. The laser operates under the usual conditions of magneto-optical trapping with no additional fields. We characterize the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Balazs Megyeri , Graeme Harvie , Andreas Lampis , Jon Goldwin

Superradiant laser, which exploits the clock transition of alkaline-earth-metal-like atoms to generate ultrastable light in the bad-cavity limit, has garnered much attention in the past few decades. Unlike their odd counterpart, the even…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Guohui Dong , Yao Yao

The creation of nanoscale lasers that operate above a coherent threshold is a challenging problem. We propose a way to circumvent this issue using systems in which a strong coupling regime is achieved between the light and the active…

Cold samples of calcium atoms are prepared in the metastable $^{3}$P$_{1}$ state inside an optical cavity resonant with the narrow band (375 Hz) $^{1}$S$_{0} \rightarrow ^{3}$P$_{1}$ intercombination line at 657 nm. We observe superradiant…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Torben Laske , Hannes Winter , Andreas Hemmerich

We introduce a class of unidirectional lasing modes associated with the frozen mode regime of non-reciprocal slow-wave structures. Such asymmetric modes can only exist in cavities with broken time-reversal and space inversion symmetries.…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 H. Ramezani , S. Kalish , I. Vitebskiy , T. Kottos

We theoretically study a superradiant laser, deriving both the steady-state behaviors and small-amplitude responses of the laser's atomic inversion, atomic polarization, and light field amplitude. Our minimum model for a three-level laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-01-15 Justin G. Bohnet , Zilong Chen , Joshua M. Weiner , Kevin C. Cox , James K. Thompson

Steady-state superradiance and superradiant lasing attract significant attentions in the field of optical lattice clocks, but have not been achieved so far due to the technical challenges and atom loss problem. In this article, we propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Qilong Wu , Yuan Zhang , Hao Wu , Shi-Lei Su , Kai-Kai Liu , Mark Oxborrow , Chongxin Shan , Klaus Mølmer

Highly stable laser sources based on narrow atomic transitions provide a promising platform for direct generation of stable and accurate optical frequencies. Here we investigate a simple system operating in the high-temperature regime of…

We propose a superradiant laser based on two-photon Raman transition of caesium-133 atoms which collectively emit photons on an ultra narrow transition into the mode of a low Q resonator known as optical bad-cavity regime. The spin-spin…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-03 Pengfei Liu , Yu Peng

A cold atomic gas with an inverted population on a transition coupled to a field mode of an optical resonator constitutes a generic model of a laser. For quasi-continuous operation, external pumping, trapping and cooling of the atoms is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Christoph Hotter , David Plankensteiner , Laurin Ostermann , Helmut Ritsch

Superradiant lasers, which consist of incoherently driven atoms coupled to a lossy cavity, are a promising source of coherent light due to their stable frequency and superior narrow linewidth. We show that when a fraction of the atoms is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Tobias Nadolny , Matteo Brunelli , Christoph Bruder

Although conventional lasers operate with a large number of intracavity atoms, the lasing properties of a single atom in a resonant cavity have been theoretically investigated for more than a decade. Here we report the experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. McKeever , A. Boca , A. D. Boozer , J. R. Buck , H. J. Kimble

We propose a solid-state based superradiance laser which is almost insensitive to the cavity mirror vibration. Therefore, it can compete with the best frequency-stable local oscillators. The long coherence time and the large optical density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Mahmood Sabooni

Hybrid systems of cold atoms and optical cavities are promising systems for increasing the stability of laser oscillators used in quantum metrology and atomic clocks. In this paper we map out the atom-cavity dynamics in such a system and…

We report on a laser locked to a silicon cavity operating continuously at 4 K with $1 \times 10^{-16}$ instability and a median linewidth of 17 mHz at 1542 nm. This is a ten-fold improvement in short-term instability, and a $10^4$…

We experimentally study the relaxation oscillations and amplitude stability properties of an optical laser operating deep into the bad-cavity regime using a laser-cooled $^{87}$Rb Raman laser. By combining measurements of the laser light…

Lasers differ from other light sources in that they are coherent, and their coherence makes them indispensable to both fundamental research and practical application. In optomechanical cavities, phonon and photon lasing is facilitated by…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-16 Jian Xiong , Zhilei Huang , Kaiyu Cui , Xue Feng , Fang Liu , Wei Zhang , Yidong Huang

We perform a theoretical study of a continuous superradiant laser supporting its experimental realization at FEMTO-ST using two sequentially-emitting ensembles of ${}^{171}\mathrm{Yb}$ atoms coupled to the same Fabry-Perot cavity. Using an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Jana El Badawi , Marion Delehaye , Bruno Bellomo

The implementation of a superradiant laser as an active frequency standard is predicted to provide better short-term stability and robustness to thermal and mechanical fluctuations when compared to standard passive optical clocks. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Anna Bychek , Helmut Ritsch

We design and fabricate an on-chip laser source that produces a directional beam with low spatial coherence. The lasing modes are based on the axial orbit in a stable cavity and have good directionality. To reduce the spatial coherence of…