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We numerically investigate the effect of phase-amplitude coupling modulation on power spectra in semiconductor lasers subject to optical injection in a face to face configuration, when a non-negligible injection delay time is taken into…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-01 Pramod Kumar , Sudeshna Sinhac , Vishwa Pald , John Gerard McInerney

The digital phase lock loop described in this paper has been in use on the Submillimeter Array (SMA) front-end receivers for over a decade and has been a key element in obtaining all of the high quality images that have been published from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Todd R. Hunter , Robert Kimberk , Patrick Steve Leiker , Cheuk-Yu Edward Tong , Robert W. Wilson

We discuss the baseline optical configuration for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, in which the lasers are not free-running, but rather one of them is used as the main frequency reference generator (the {\it master})…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Massimo Tinto , Daniel A. Shaddock , Julien Sylvestre , J. W. Armstrong

We present a laser frequency stabilization system that uses a transfer interferometer to stabilize slave lasers to a reference laser. Our implementation uses off-the-shelf optical components along with microcontroller-based digital…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 Shira Jackson , Hiromitsu Sawaoka , Nishant Bhatt , Shreyas Potnis , Amar C. Vutha

Space-based gravitational-wave observatories such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) use time-shifted and time-scaled linear combinations of differential laser-phase beat signals to cancel the otherwise overwhelming laser…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Shawn J. Mitryk , Josep Sanjuan , Guido Mueller

The model of a non-autonomous memristor-based oscillator with a line of equilibria is studied. A numerical simulation of the system driven by a periodical force is combined with a theoretical analysis by means of the quasi-harmonic…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-10-28 Ivan A. Korneev , Andrei V. Slepnev , Vladimir V. Semenov , Tatiana Vadivasova

The aim of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is to detect gravitational waves through a phase modulation in long (2.5 Mkm) laser light links between spacecraft. Among other noise sources to be addressed are the phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-14 Jean-Yves Vinet , Nelson Christensen , Nicoleta Dinu-Jaeger , Michel Lintz , Nary Man , Mikhaël Pichot

We investigate phase-locked solutions of a continuum field of nonlocally coupled identical phase oscillators with distance-dependent propagation delays. Equilibrium relations for both synchronous and traveling wave solutions in the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 Gautam C Sethia , Abhijit Sen , Fatihcan M Atay

A low noise laser system for atom interferometry is realized with phase-locked fiber lasers, where the performance of the OPLL is greatly enhanced by the FEOM feedback loop and the narrow linewidths. The laser system demonstrated contribute…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Bo-Nan Jiang

Lasers with well controlled relative frequencies are indispensable for many applications in science and technology. We present a frequency offset locking method for lasers based on beat frequency discrimination utilizing hybrid electronic…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-29 Vyacheslav Li , Fritz Diorico , Onur Hosten

This letter presents a dual quadrature phasemeter, an implementation of a phase-locked loop designed to track the phase of homodyne and heterodyne inter-satellite laser links. The dual quadrature phasemeters use dual quadrature optical…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-30 Callum S. Sambridge , Kirk McKenzie

High-precision interpolation of LISA phase measurements allows signal reconstruction and formulation of Time-Delay Interferometry (TDI) combinations to be conducted in post-processing. The reconstruction is based on phase measurements made…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 D. A. Shaddock , B. Ware , R. E. Spero , M. Vallisneri

Optical lattices play a significant role in the field of cold atom physics, particularly in quantum simulations. Varying the lattice period is often a useful feature, but it presents the challenge of maintaining lattice phase stability in…

In many areas of imaging science, it is difficult to measure the phase of linear measurements. As such, one often wishes to reconstruct a signal from intensity measurements, that is, perform phase retrieval. In this paper, we provide a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-13 Boris Alexeev , Afonso S. Bandeira , Matthew Fickus , Dustin G. Mixon

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is being designed to detect and study in detail gravitational waves from sources throughout the Universe such as massive black hole binaries. The conceptual formulation of the LISA space-borne…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Scott E Pollack , Robin Tuck Stebbins

A polarization switching pulse interleaver is shown to be effective in reducing timing noise due to polarization mode dispersion in time and frequency transfer based on mode-locked lasers and standard single-mode fibres. In closed-loop time…

Heterodyne laser phase measurements in a space-based gravitational wave interferometer are degraded by the phase fluctuations of the onboard clocks, resulting in unacceptable sensitivity performance levels of the interferometric data. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-19 Massimo Tinto , Nan Yu

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 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…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a gravitational wave detector in space. It relies on a post-processing technique named time-delay interferometry (TDI) to suppress the overwhelming laser frequency noise by several orders of…