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Stable and spectrally narrow laser sources referenced to ultrastable passive Fabry-Pérot cavities are invaluable for optical atomic clocks and they find important applications, e.g. in precision tests of relativity or novel radar applications. Ultimately the fractional frequency instability of the laser is limited by Brownian thermal noise of the cavity constituents.
The development of simple and reliable high stability clock lasers is of great importance for future state-of-the-art optical clocks [1]–[5] and for future transportable optical clocks [6], [7]. Further development of clock lasers with better stability has so far been hindered by thermal noise in the reference cavity used for laser stabilization and conventional approaches for improvements may be...
Thermal noise fundamentally limits the frequency stability of optical resonators used in optical clocks or to generate ultrapure microwaves by optical frequency division. We will give an overview of the relevant noise mechanisms, their calculation and discuss different current developments to reduce the noise. In one approach a cryogenic silicon resonator with very low thermal noise operated at a...
The stability of current state-of-the-art optical atomic clocks [1]-[5] is mostly limited by the frequency noise of the interrogation oscillator through the Dick effect. To achieve the heralded ultimate stability, future optical frequency standards will need to produce light sources with frequency stability at the 10−17 fractional level or below at one second of integration time. Recently, a new frontier...
We demonstrate substrate-transferred crystalline coatings, based on epitaxial Bragg mirrors directly-bonded to fused silica, exhibiting an unprecedented tenfold reduction in Brownian noise. These mirrors promise a significant advancement in the performance of precision optical interferometers.
We present a mid-infrared frequency comb based on a synchronously-pumped, femtosecond optical parametric oscillator. The idler (signal) is continuously tunable from 2.8-4.8 mum (1.76-1.37 mum) with a maximum average output power of 1.50 W.
High-harmonic generation is achieved at 100 MHz repetition rates by utilizing a femtosecond enhancement cavity to increase peak intensities from a mode-locked laser. This provides a coherent frequency comb in the VUV for high-resolution spectroscopy.
We measure the frequency fluctuations induced by thermal noise driven length fluctuations in a variety of rigid Fabry-Perot cavities. The results are in basic agreement with theoretical predictions [1].
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