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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 present a general analysis for determining the optimal modulation parameters for the modulation transfer spectroscopy scheme. The results are universally valid and can be applied to spectroscopy of any atomic species requiring only the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 Tilman Preuschoff , Malte Schlosser , Gerhard Birkl

Generating high output powers while achieving narrow line single mode lasing are often mutual exclusive properties of commercial laser diodes. For this reason, efficient and scalable amplification of narrow line laser light is still a major…

Length changes due to thermo-mechanical noise originating from, for example, Brownian motion are a key limiting factor of present day state-of-the-art laser frequency stabilization using Fabry-P\'erot cavities. We present a laser-frequency…

Stabilization of laser frequencies is critical for sensitive Rydberg measurements, including in applications such as dissipative time crystal (DTC) dynamics, yet conventional approaches often require complex or costly hardware. We…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Darmindra Arumugam , Brook Feyissa

We report on a device to electronically stabilize the optical injection lock of a semiconductor diode laser. Our technique uses as discriminator the peak height of the laser's transmission signal on a scanning Fabry-Perot cavity and feeds…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Brendan Saxberg , Benjamin Plotkin-Swing , Subhadeep Gupta

We study the non-linear interaction of a cold sample of strontium-88 atoms coupled to a single mode of a low finesse optical cavity in the so-called bad cavity limit and investigate the implications for applications to laser stabilization.…

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…

Laser frequency noise suppression is a critical requirement for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission to detect gravitational waves. The baseline laser stabilization is achieved using cavity pre-stabilization and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-05 Jobin Thomas Valliyakalayil , Andrew Wade , David Rabeling , Jue Zhang , Daniel Shaddock , Kirk McKenzie

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

The stabilization of lasers to absolute frequency references is a fundamental requirement in several areas of atomic, molecular and optical physics. A range of techniques are available to produce a suitable reference onto which one can…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Matthew Aldous , Jonathan Woods , Andrei Dragomir , Ritayan Roy , Matt Himsworth

A single-seed, module-based compact laser system is demonstrated on a transportable $^{87}\text{Rb}$-based high-precision atomic gravimeter. All the required laser frequencies for the atom interferometry are provided by free-space…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-10-24 Fong En Oon , Rainer Dumke

Spatially distributed cavity (SDC) lasers are a promising technology for simultaneous light information and power transfer (SLIPT), offering benefits such as increased mobility and intrinsic safety, which are advantageous for various…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Mingliang Xiong , Zeqian Guo , Qingqing Zhang , Qingwen Liu , Gang Wang , Gang Li , Bin He

We present a technique for simultaneous laser frequency stabilization on transitions of multiple atomic species with a single optical setup. The method is based on modulation transfer spectroscopy and the signals are separated by modulating…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-06-08 Moritz Mihm , Kai Lampmann , André Wenzlawski , Patrick Windpassinger

We stabilize a chosen radiofrequency beat note between two optical fields derived from the same mode-locked laser pulse train, in order to coherently manipulate quantum information. This scheme does not require access or active…

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

We have implemented a simple and cost-effective digital system for long-term frequency stabilisation and locking to an arbitrary wavelength of the single-frequency ring CW Ti:Sapphire laser. This system is built around two confocal…

Recent proposals suggest that lasers based on narrow dipole-forbidden transitions in cold alkaline earth atoms could achieve linewidths that are orders of magnitude smaller than linewidths of any existing lasers. Here, we demonstrate a…

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

We demonstrate the use of a flexible digital servo system for the optical stabilization of both the repetition rate and carrier-envelope offset frequency of a laser frequency comb. The servo system is based entirely on a low-cost field…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-27 Jonah Shaw , Connor Fredrick , Scott Diddams

We consider the phase stability of a local oscillator (or laser) locked to a cavity QED system comprised of atoms with an ultra-narrow optical transition. The atoms are cooled to millikelvin temperatures and then released into the optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 D. A. Tieri , J. Cooper , Bjarke T. R. Christensen , J. W. Thomsen , M. J. Holland