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We consider a gas of trapped Cooper-paired fermionic atoms which are manipulated by laser light. The laser induces a transition from an internal state with large negative scattering length (superfluid) to one with weaker interactions…
Pulse formation in passively mode locked lasers is often accompanied with dispersive waves that form of spectral sidebands due to spatial inhomogoneities in the laser cavity. Here we present an explicit calculation of the amplitude,…
Narrow-linewidth, compact and robust laser systems are of high interest, especially with prospects for portable quantum metrological applications. We realized an external cavity DFB-laser incorporating an intra-cavity EOM in a fully…
We investigate the dynamics of a microwave-driven Josephson junction capacitively coupled to a lumped element LC oscillator. In the regime of driving where the Josephson junction can be approximated as a Kerr oscillator, this minimal…
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The femtosecond laser frequency comb has enabled the 21st century revolution in optical synthesis and metrology. A particularly compelling technique that relies on the broadband coherence of two laser frequency combs is dual-comb…
This study demonstrates that self-injection locking (SIL) of a distributed feedback (DFB) laser to a high-Q fiber Fabry Perot (FFP) resonator, fabricated with highly nonlinear fiber, allows optical frequency combs (OFC) generation with a…
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Frequency-modulated (FM) combs form spontaneously in free-running semiconductor lasers and possess a vast potential for spectroscopic applications. Despite recent progress in obtaining a conclusive theoretical description, experimental FM…
We propose and study a method for measuring the chromatic dispersion parameter (D) of optical fibers and bulk optical elements through the use of a single-arm three-wave interferometer and a fiber femtosecond frequency comb (FFFC). The FFFC…
Quantum dot mode-locked laser-based optical frequency combs are emerging as a critical solution for achieving low-cost, high-efficiency, and large-capacity optical interconnects. The practical implementation of wavelength division…
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