Optical frequency combs: Coherently uniting the electromagnetic spectrum

SA Diddams, K Vahala, T Udem - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND The generation and control of coherent electromagnetic waves, such as
those provided by electronic oscillators in the radio frequency domain or lasers in the optical …

20 years of developments in optical frequency comb technology and applications

T Fortier, E Baumann - Communications Physics, 2019‏ - nature.com
Optical frequency combs were developed nearly two decades ago to support the world's
most precise atomic clocks. Acting as precision optical synthesizers, frequency combs …

Frequency ratio measurements at 18-digit accuracy using an optical clock network

Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Atomic clocks are vital in a wide array of technologies and experiments, including tests of
fundamental physics. Clocks operating at optical frequencies have now demonstrated …

ESPRESSO at VLT-On-sky performance and first results

F Pepe, S Cristiani, R Rebolo, NC Santos… - Astronomy & …, 2021‏ - aanda.org
Context. ESPRESSO is the new high-resolution spectrograph of ESO's Very Large
Telescope (VLT). It was designed for ultra-high radial-velocity (RV) precision and extreme …

An optical atomic clock based on a highly charged ion

SA King, LJ Spieß, P Micke, A Wilzewski, T Leopold… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Optical atomic clocks are the most accurate measurement devices ever constructed and
have found many applications in fundamental science and technology,–. The use of highly …

Quantum-Logic Clock with a Systematic Uncertainty below

SM Brewer, JS Chen, AM Hankin, ER Clements… - Physical review …, 2019‏ - APS
We describe an optical atomic clock based on quantum-logic spectroscopy of the S 0 1↔ P
3 0 transition in Al+ 27 with a systematic uncertainty of 9.4× 10-19 and a frequency stability …

Demonstration of 4.8 × 10−17 stability at 1 s for two independent optical clocks

E Oelker, RB Hutson, CJ Kennedy, L Sonderhouse… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Optical atomic clocks require local oscillators with exceptional optical coherence owing to
the challenge of performing spectroscopy on their ultranarrow-linewidth clock transitions …

Architecture for the photonic integration of an optical atomic clock

ZL Newman, V Maurice, T Drake, JR Stone, TC Briles… - Optica, 2019‏ - opg.optica.org
Laboratory optical atomic clocks achieve remarkable accuracy (now counted to 18 digits or
more), opening possibilities for exploring fundamental physics and enabling new …

Quantum sensing

CL Degen, F Reinhard, P Cappellaro - Reviews of modern physics, 2017‏ - APS
“Quantum sensing” describes the use of a quantum system, quantum properties, or quantum
phenomena to perform a measurement of a physical quantity. Historical examples of …

Search for ultralight dark matter from long-term frequency comparisons of optical and microwave atomic clocks

T Kobayashi, A Takamizawa, D Akamatsu, A Kawasaki… - Physical review …, 2022‏ - APS
We search for ultralight scalar dark matter candidates that induce oscillations of the fine
structure constant, the electron and quark masses, and the quantum chromodynamics …