Remote picometric acoustic sensing via ultrastable laser homodyne interferometry

Yoon-Soo Jang; Dong Il Lee; Jaime Flor Flores; Wenting Wang; Chee Wei Wong

doi:10.1117/1.APN.4.4.046006

Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 4, Issue 4, 046006(2025)

Remote picometric acoustic sensing via ultrastable laser homodyne interferometry

Yoon-Soo Jang^1,2,3、*, Dong Il Lee¹, Jaime Flor Flores¹, Wenting Wang^1,4, and Chee Wei Wong^1、*

¹University of California, Los Angeles, Fang Lu Mesoscopic Optics and Quantum Electronics Laboratory, Los Angeles, California, United States

²Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Division of Physical Metrology, Length and Dimensional Metrology Group, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

³University of Science and Technology (UST), Department of Science of Measurement, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

⁴Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiongan Institute of Innovation, Communication and Integrated Photonics Laboratory, Xiong’an New Area, China

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Category: Research Articles

Received: Mar. 11, 2025

Accepted: May. 30, 2025

Published Online: Jun. 30, 2025

The Author Email: Yoon-Soo Jang (ysj@kirss.ac.kr), Chee Wei Wong (cheewei.wong@ucla.edu)

DOI:10.1117/1.APN.4.4.046006

CSTR:32397.14.1.APN.4.4.046006

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