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We demonstrate a fully optical, long-distance remote comparison of independent ultrastable optical frequencies reaching a short term stability that is superior to any reported remote comparison of optical frequencies. We use two ultrastable…

Optical clocks require an ultra-stable laser to probe and precisely measure the frequency of the narrow-linewidth clock transition. We introduce a portable ultraviolet (UV) laser system for use in an aluminum quantum logic clock,…

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

A frequency-stabilized ultraviolet laser system, locked to the thallium resonant transition of 377.5 nm, was demonstrated using a novel bichromatic spectroscopy technique for tuning the zero-crossing laser-lock point. The atomic thallium…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-09 Tzu-Ling Chen , Chang-Yi Lin , Jow-Tsong Shy , Yi-Wei Liu

Ultraviolet (UV) diode lasers are widely used in many photonics applications. But their frequency stabilization schemes are not as mature as frequency-doubling lasers, mainly due to some limitations in the UV spectral region. Here we…

Portable ultra-stable lasers are essential for high-precision measurements. This study presents a 1550 nm vehicle-portable ultra-stable laser designed for continuous real-time operation on highways. We implement several measures to mitigate…

We describe the design and operation of a high-stability Fabry-Perot cavity, for laser stabilization in cavity quantum-electrodynamics experiments. Our design is based on an inexpensive and readily available uniaxial carbon-fiber reinforced…

State-of-the-art laser frequency stabilization is limited by miniscule length changes caused by thermal noise. In this work, a cavity-length-insensitive frequency stabilization scheme is implemented using strong dispersion in a…

We present a first experimental characterization of our ultra-compact, ultra-stable laser. The heart of the apparatus is an original Fabry-Perot cavity with a 25 mm length and a pyramidal geometry, equipped with highly-reflective…

In this letter, we demonstrate a technique of making an ultrastable laser referenced to a multi-cavity, corresponding to a lower thermal noise limit due to the larger equivalent beam size. The multi-cavity consists of several pairs of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-07 Zhaoyang Tai , Lulu Yan , Yanyan Zhang , Pan Zhang , Xiaofei Zhang , Wenge Guo , Shougang Zhang , Haifeng Jiang

Frequency stabilisation of lasers to optical reference cavities is an established method to achieve state-of-the-art stability. The strengths of this method are the high discriminator coefficient of optical cavities, and the low-noise…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-28 Adam L. Parke , Marco Schioppo

We report on an ultrastable molecular clock based on the interrogation of the 3{\nu} rotational-vibrational combination band at 1563nm of carbon monoxide 12C16O. The laser stabilization scheme is based on frequency modulation (FM)…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Shailendar Saraf , Paul Berceau , Alberto Stochino , Robert Byer , John Lipa

We demonstrate thermal-noise-limited direct locking of a semiconductor distributed feedback (DFB) laser to a sub-1 mL volume, ultrastable optical cavity, enabling extremely compact and simple ultrastable laser systems. Using the…

We review the conventional phase-locking technique in the long-term stabilization of the mode-locked fiber laser and investigate the phase noise limitation of the conventional technique. To break the limitation, we propose an improved…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-12 Dong Hou , Bo Ning , Shuangyou Zhang , Jiutao Wu , Jianye Zhao

Astrophysical observations suggest the existence of an unknown kind of matter in the Universe, in the frame of the $\Lambda$CDM model. The research field of dark matter covers an energy scale going from massive objects to ultra-light scalar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 Yara Hariri , Jacques Millo , Clément Lacroûte , Joannès Barbarat , Yann Kersalé , Jonathan Gillot

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

We present the design and realization of two reference cavities for ultra-stable lasers addressing narrow transitions in mixed-species (In+ / Yb+) Coulomb crystals. With a simple setup, we achieve a fractional frequency instability close to…

We report on two ultrastable lasers each stabilized to independent silicon Fabry-P\'erot cavities operated at 124 K. The fractional frequency instability of each laser is completely determined by the fundamental thermal Brownian noise of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-07-05 D. G. Matei , T. Legero , S. Häfner , C. Grebing , R. Weyrich , W. Zhang , L. Sonderhouse , J. M. Robinson , J. Ye , F. Riehle , U. Sterr

Developments in ultrastable lasers have fueled remarkable advances in optical frequency metrology and quantum science. A key ingredient in further improving laser frequency stability is the use of low-noise mirror materials such as AlGaAs…