Optical frequency standards for time and length applications

FL Hong - Measurement Science and Technology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The last decade has witnessed tremendous progress in research on optical frequency
metrology. Optical frequency standards using optical lattice and single-ion trap technologies …

Photonic chip for laser stabilization to an atomic vapor with 10−11 instability

MT Hummon, S Kang, DG Bopp, Q Li, DA Westly, S Kim… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Devices based on spectroscopy of atomic vapors can measure physical quantities such as
magnetic fields, RF electric fields, time and length, and rotation and have applications in a …

An ultra-stable laser based on molecular iodine with a short-term instability of 3.3× 10− 15 for space based gravity missions

Z Zhang, Z Wang, H Liu, W Yuan, W You… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Many space based gravity missions require frequency stabilized lasers with stringent
requirements. Toward those requirements, we develop a compact frequency-stabilized laser …

Frequency references based on molecular iodine for the study of Yb atoms using the 1S03P1 intercombination transition at 556 nm

Y Tanabe, Y Sakamoto, T Kohno, D Akamatsu… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We used precision spectroscopy to analyze the R (53) 24-1, P (49) 24-1, and R (95) 25-1
lines of molecular iodine (^ 127I_2) to establish optical frequency references for the laser …

Iodine-frequency-stabilized laser diode and displacement-measuring interferometer based on sinusoidal phase modulation

QA Duong, TT Vu, M Higuchi, D Wei… - Measurement Science …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a sinusoidal phase modulation method to achieve both the frequency
stabilization of an external-cavity laser diode (ECLD) to an 127 I 2 saturated absorption …

Iodine-stabilized laser at telecom wavelength using dual-pitch periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide

K Ikeda, S Okubo, M Wada, K Kashiwagi, K Yoshii… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the third harmonic generation of a 1542-nm laser using a dual-pitch
periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide with a conversion efficiency of 66%/W^ 2. The …

Absolute frequency measurements and hyperfine structures of the molecular iodine transitions at 578 nm

T Kobayashi, D Akamatsu, K Hosaka, H Inaba… - JOSA B, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report absolute frequency measurements of 81 hyperfine components of the
rovibrational transitions of molecular iodine at 578 nm using the second harmonic …

Suppression of residual amplitude modulation appeared in commercial electro-optic modulator to improve iodine-frequency-stabilized laser diode using frequency …

QA Duong, TD Nguyen, TT Vu… - Journal of the …, 2018 - jeos.edpsciences.org
Background: This paper shows how to suppress residual amplitude modulation (RAM)
appeared in a commercial electro-optic modulator (EOM) to improve an iodine-frequency …

Evaluation of laser frequency offset locking using an electrical delay line

Y Hisai, K Ikeda, H Sakagami, T Horikiri… - Applied Optics, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Frequency offset locking between two Nd: YAG lasers is performed using frequency locking
with an electrical delay line. The relative frequency instability of the offset locking is …

Absolute frequency measurement of molecular iodine hyperfine transitions at 554 nm and its application to stabilize a 369 nm laser for Y b+ ions cooling

YT Chen, NC **n, HR Qin, SN Miao, Y Zheng… - Chinese Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigate 13 hyperfine structures of transition lines of 127 I 2 near 554 nm, namely, the
R (50) 22-0, P (46) 22-0, P (121) 24-0, P (69) 25-1, R (146) 25-0, R (147) 28-1, P (160) 26-0 …