Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Chasing the thermodynamical noise limit in whispering-gallery-mode resonators for ultrastable laser frequency stabilization

  • Jinkang Lim,
  • Anatoliy A. Savchenkov,
  • Elijah Dale,
  • Wei Liang,
  • Danny Eliyahu,
  • Vladimir Ilchenko,
  • Andrey B. Matsko,
  • Lute Maleki,
  • Chee Wei Wong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00021-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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High-quality optical resonators have the potential to provide a miniaturized frequency reference for metrology and sensing but they often lack stability. Here, Lim et al. experimentally characterize the stability of whispering-gallery resonators at their fundamental noise limits.