Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Harnessing speckle for a sub-femtometre resolved broadband wavemeter and laser stabilization

  • Nikolaus Klaus Metzger,
  • Roman Spesyvtsev,
  • Graham D. Bruce,
  • Bill Miller,
  • Gareth T. Maker,
  • Graeme Malcolm,
  • Michael Mazilu,
  • Kishan Dholakia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15610
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The complex speckle pattern produced by coherent multiple scattering contains information about the incident light field, which has recently been used for imaging. Metzgeret al. use speckle to construct a wavemeter with sub-femtometre resolution which is subsequently used for laser stabilization.