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Transportable 1555-nm Ultra-Stable Laser with Sub-0.185-Hz Linewidth |
| Zhao-Yang Tai1,2, Lu-Lu Yan1,2, Yan-Yan Zhang1,2, Xiao-Fei Zhang1,2, Wen-Ge Guo1, Shou-Gang Zhang1,2, Hai-Feng Jiang1,2** |
1Key Laboratory of Time and Frequency Primary Standards, National Time Service Center, Xi'an 710600
2School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
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Zhao-Yang Tai, Lu-Lu Yan, Yan-Yan Zhang et al 2017 Chin. Phys. Lett. 34 090602 |
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Abstract We present two cavity-stabilized lasers at 1555 nm, which are built to be the frequency source for a transportable photonic microwave generation system. The frequency instability reaches the thermal noise limit ($7\times10^{-16})$ of the 10-cm ultra-low expansion glass cavity at 1–10 s averaging time and the beat signal of the two lasers reveals a remarkable linewidth of 185 mHz.
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Received: 15 June 2017
Published: 15 August 2017
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06.30.Ft
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(Time and frequency)
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42.60.By
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(Design of specific laser systems)
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42.60.Da
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(Resonators, cavities, amplifiers, arrays, and rings)
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| Fund: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 91536217, the West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No 2013ZD02, and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No 2015334. |
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