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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 3, 033601(2025)

Laser frequency stabilization with a metasurface chip through atomic spectral manipulation

Chen Qing, Lishuang Feng, and Dengke Zhang^*

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School of Instrumentation and Optoelectronic Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

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Paper Information

Category: Nanophotonics, Metamaterials, and Plasmonics

Received: Jun. 4, 2024

Accepted: Sep. 2, 2024

Posted: Sep. 2, 2024

Published Online: Mar. 13, 2025

The Author Email: Dengke Zhang (dkzhang@buaa.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202523.033601

CSTR:32184.14.COL202523.033601

Topics

laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

laser manufacturing

Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology