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A source of ultrashort pulses of light in the 2 {\mu}m region was constructed using supercontinuum broadening from an erbium mode-locked laser. The output spectrum spanned 1000 nm to 2200 nm with an average power of 250 mW. A pulse width of…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-26 Andrew Klose , Gabriel Ycas , Daniel L. Maser , Scott A. Diddams

A phase modulated RF current source is applied to an injection locked diode laser operating at $780\unit{nm}$. This produces tunable phase modulated sidebands of the laser suitable for stabilizing the length of an optical transfer cavity…

We characterize the frequency-sensitivity of a cavity-stabilized laser to inertial forces and temperature fluctuations, and perform real-time feed-forward to correct for these sources of noise. We measure the sensitivity of the cavity to…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 David R. Leibrandt , James C. Bergquist , Till Rosenband

The local interaction of charges and light in organic solids is the basis of distinct and fundamental effects. We here observe, at the single molecule scale, how a focused laser beam can locally shift by hundreds-time their natural…

We demonstrate a technique for locking the frequency of a tunable diode laser to a ring-cavity resonator. The resonator is stabilized to a diode laser which is in turn locked to an atomic transition, thus giving it absolute frequency…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ayan Banerjee , Dipankar Das , Umakant D. Rapol , Vasant Natarajan

It is shown that the transverse Rayleigh Taylor like instability can be well stabilized by using elliptically polarized laser in the hole boring radiation pressure acceleration regime. The $\bm{J}\times\bm{B}$ effect of the laser will…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 Dong Wu , C. Y. Zheng , C. T. Zhou , X. Q. Yan , M. Y. Yu , X. T. He

The interrogation of an ultra-narrow clock transition of a single trapped ion for optical frequency metrology requires a laser stabilized to a couple of Hz per second with a linewidth of the same order of magnitude. Today, lasers in the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-14 Didier Guyomarc'H , Gaëtan Hagel , Cédric Zumsteg , Martina Knoop

We report ultra-stable locking of a commercially available extended cavity diode laser to a vibration-insensitive high finesse Fabry-Perot cavity. A servo bandwidth of 2 MHz is demonstrated. The absolute stability of the diode laser after…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Y. N. Zhao , J. Zhang , J. Stuhler , G. Schuricht , F. Lison , Z. H. Lu , L. J. Wang

We demonstrate an on-chip lithium niobate micro-disk laser based on hydrogen cyanide (H13C14N) gas saturation absorption method for frequency stabilization. The laser chip consists of two main components: a micro-disk laser and a combined…

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 present a compact iodine-stabilized laser system at 633 nm, based on a distributed-feedback laser diode. Within a footprint of $27\times 15$ cm$^2$ the system provides 5 mW of frequency stabilized light from a single-mode fiber. Its…

We have built a frequency chain which enables to measure the absolute frequency of a laser emitting in the 28-31 THz frequency range and stabilized onto a molecular absorption line. The set-up uses an optical frequency comb and an…

A fiber laser is stabilized using a Calcium Fluoride (CaF2) whispering-gallery-mode resonator. It is set up using a semiconductor optical amplifier as a gain medium. The resonator is critically coupled through prisms, and used as a…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-02 B. Sprenger , H. G. L. Schwefel , Z. H. Lu , S. Svitlov , L. J. Wang

Laser power fluctuations can significantly reduce the device performances in various applications. High frequency fluctuations impact the signal-to-noise ratio, while slow variations can reduce the device repeatability or accuracy. Here we…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 F. Tricot , D. H. Phung , M. Lours , S. Guerandel , E. de Clercq

Low frequency high precision laser interferometry is subject to excess laser-frequency-noise coupling via arm-length differences which is commonly mitigated by locking the frequency to a stable reference system. This approach is crucial to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-01 Oliver Gerberding , Katharina-Sophie Isleif , Moritz Mehmet , Karsten Danzmann , Gerhard Heinzel

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

We demonstrate a laser frequency stabilization technique for laser cooling of Potassium atoms, based on saturated absorption spectroscopy in the C-Band optical telecommunication window, using ro-vibrationel transitions of the acetylene…

Phase coherent fibers (PCF) are essential to distribute nearly monochromatic photons, ultra-stable in their frequency and phases, which have demanding requirements for state-of-the-art networked experiments, quantum as well as very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Stanley Johnson , Sandeep Mishra , Anirban Pathak , Subhadeep De

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 present a compact all-digital implementation of a scanning transfer cavity lock (STCL) for long-term laser frequency stabilization. An interrupt-driven state machine is employed to realize the STCL, with the capability to correct for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-24 S. Subhankar , A. Restelli , Y. Wang , S. L. Rolston , J. V. Porto