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most citedA sub-40 mHz linewidth laser based on a silicon single-crystal optical cavity

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physics.ins-det2025

The QTF-Backbone: Proposal for a Nationwide Optical Fibre Backbone in Germany for Quantum Technology and Time and Frequency Metrology

Tara Cubel Liebisch, Peter Kaufmann, Harald Schnatz +166

The recent breakthroughs in the distribution of quantum information and high-precision time and frequency (T&F) signals over long-haul optical fibre networks have transformative po…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Ultrastable lasers: investigations of crystalline mirrors and closed cycle cooling at 124 K

C. Y. Ma, J. Yu, T. Legero +8

We have investigated crystalline AlGaAs/GaAs optical coatings with three ultra-stable cavities operating at 4 K, 16 K, 124 K and 297 K. The response of the resonance frequencies of…

physics.optics2023★ 24 cited

Substrate-transferred GaAs/AlGaAs crystalline coatings for gravitational-wave detectors: A review of the state of the art

G. D. Cole, S. Ballmer, G. Billingsley +16

In this Perspective we summarize the status of technological development for large-area and low-noise substrate-transferred GaAs/AlGaAs (AlGaAs) crystalline coatings for interferom…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Frequency stability of cryogenic silicon cavities with semiconductor crystalline coatings

Dhruv Kedar, Jialiang Yu, Eric Oelker +7

State-of-the-art optical oscillators employing cryogenic reference cavities are limited in performance by the Brownian thermal noise associated with the mechanical dissipation of t…

physics.optics2022★ 38 cited

Excess noise and photo-induced effects in highly reflective crystalline mirror coatings

Jialiang Yu, Dhruv Kedar, Sebastian Häfner +9

Thermodynamically induced length fluctuations of high-reflectivity mirror coatings put a fundamental limit on sensitivity and stability of precision optical interferometers like gr…

physics.optics2022★ 46 cited

A transportable clock laser system with an instability of

Sofia Herbers, Sebastian Häfner, Sören Dörscher +3

We present a transportable ultra-stable clock laser system based on a Fabry-Pérot cavity with crystalline AlGaAs/GaAs mirror coatings, fused silica (FS) mirror su…