Ultra-stable lasers & ULE cavities

Munich · Boulder, Germany / United States48.14°N 11.58°E

computed criticality12/100

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Linewidth < 1 Hz; instability ≈5×10⁻¹⁶ (ULE cavity)

2024

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Ion traps and optical clocks need lasers whose frequency drifts by less than one hertz, obtained by locking a diode onto an ultra-stable cavity made of ULE glass (Corning 7972). The know-how is concentrated among a few suppliers and depends on a single special glass.

Actors

TOPTICA (Munich)

Menlo Systems (Martinsried)

Stable Laser Systems (Boulder)

Corning, ULE glass

Feeds 2

Ion traps, IonQ & QuantinuumQuantum & Cryogenics↗Quantum machines & sensors, optical clocksQuantum & Cryogenics↗

Sources

TOPTICA, Ultra-stable Clock Laser Systems ↗

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