Excess noise and photoinduced effects in highly reflective crystalline mirror coatings

J Yu, S Häfner, T Legero, S Herbers, D Nicolodi, CY Ma… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Thermodynamically induced length fluctuations of high-reflectivity mirror coatings put a
fundamental limit on sensitivity and stability of precision optical interferometers like …

Levitated optomechanics: A tutorial and perspective

G Winstone, M Bhattacharya, AA Geraci, T Li… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Optomechanics, the study of the mechanical interaction of light with matter, has proven to be
a fruitful area of research that has yielded many notable achievements, including the direct …

Reducing the instability of an optical lattice clock using multiple atomic ensembles

X Zheng, J Dolde, S Kolkowitz - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
The stability of an optical atomic clock is a critical figure of merit for almost all clock
applications. To this end, much optical atomic clock research has focused on reducing clock …

[HTML][HTML] Substrate-transferred GaAs/AlGaAs crystalline coatings for gravitational-wave detectors

GD Cole, SW Ballmer, G Billingsley… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this Perspective, we summarize the status of technological development for large-area
and low-noise substrate-transferred GaAs/AlGaAs (AlGaAs) crystalline coatings for …

Monolithic optical resonator for ultrastable laser and photonic millimeter-wave synthesis

W Zhang, E Kittlaus, A Savchenkov, V Iltchenko… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Optical resonators are indispensable tools in optical metrology that usually benefit from an
evacuated and highly-isolated environment to achieve peak performance. Even in the more …

Synthetic FM triplet for AM-free precision laser stabilization and spectroscopy

D Kedar, Z Yao, I Ryger, JL Hall, J Ye - Optica, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The Pound–Drever–Hall (PDH) cavity-locking scheme has found prevalent uses in precision
optical interferometry and laser frequency stabilization. A form of frequency modulation …

A strontium lattice clock with both stability and uncertainty below

J Li, XY Cui, ZP Jia, DQ Kong, HW Yu, XQ Zhu… - Metrologia, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
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cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to our use of cookies. To find out more, see …

Cryogenic sapphire optical reference cavity with crystalline coatings at 1× 10− 16 fractional frequency instability

J Valencia, G Iskander, NV Nardelli… - Review of Scientific …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The frequency stability of a laser locked to an optical reference cavity is fundamentally
limited by thermal noise in the cavity length. These fluctuations are linked to material …

Using slow light to enable laser frequency stabilization to a short, high-Q cavity

D Gustavsson, M Lindén, K Shortiss, S Kröll… - Optics …, 2025 - opg.optica.org
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 …

A fixed support method for cryogenic silicon cavities of ultra-stable lasers for space applications

F Meng, C Ma, D Zhang, Y Li, L Meng, C **ng, J Jia - Scientific Reports, 2025 - nature.com
In this paper, a fixed support method for a cryogenic monocrystalline silicon Fabry-Pérot
cavity of an ultra-stable laser for space applications is proposed. Through finite element …