All-fiber-based ultrastable laser with long-term frequency stability of 1.1 × 10<sup>-14</sup>

Yafeng Huang; Di Hu; Meifeng Ye; Yating Wang; Yanli Li; Ming Li; Yinnan Chen; Qiuzhi Qu; Lingke Wang; Liang Liu; Tang Li

doi:10.3788/COL202321.031404

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 3, 031404(2023)

All-fiber-based ultrastable laser with long-term frequency stability of 1.1 × 10^-14

Yafeng Huang^1,2, Di Hu¹, Meifeng Ye^1,2, Yating Wang^1,2, Yanli Li^1,2, Ming Li^1,3, Yinnan Chen^1,2, Qiuzhi Qu¹, Lingke Wang^1、*, Liang Liu¹, and Tang Li^1、**

Author Affiliations

¹Laboratory of Space Laser Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

²Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

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