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most citedHigh-Stability Single-Ion Clock with Systematic Uncertainty

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quant-ph2026★ 2 cited

High-performance source of indistinguishable polarization-entangled photons with a local oscillator reference for quantum networking

Michael Grayson, Shawn Meyer, Daniel Sorensen +9

Optical quantum networking protocols impose stringent requirements on the states produced by sources of entanglement. We demonstrate a free-space, compact, source of indistinguisha…

physics.atom-ph2025

Atomic clock frequency ratios with fractional uncertainty

Alexander Aeppli, Willa J. Arthur-Dworschack, Kyle Beloy +24

We report high-precision frequency ratio measurements between optical atomic clocks based on Al, Yb, and Sr. With total fractional uncertainties at or bel…

physics.atom-ph2025

Doppler Shift Mitigation in a Chip-Scale Atomic Beam Clock

Alexander Staron, Gabriela Martinez, Nicholas Nardelli +3

Chip-scale microwave atomic systems based on thermal atomic beams offer a promising approach to realize low-power and low-drift clocks for timing holdover applications. Miniature b…

physics.optics2025

Phase-Stable Optical Fiber Links for Quantum Network Protocols

Nicholas V. Nardelli, Dileep V. Reddy, Michael Grayson +5

We demonstrate the distribution of single-photon-level pulses from a mode-locked laser source over a phase-stable fiber link, achieving an optical timing jitter of less than 100 as…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Sub-femtosecond stabilization of multicore fiber for high-fidelity quantum networking at 100% duty cycle

Takuma Nakamura, Nazanin Hoghooghi, Nicolas Fontaine +8

Originally envisioned as a solution for the capacity crunch in telecommunications networks, multicore fibers (MCF) are contributing to scientific fields beyond telecom, such as sen…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 54 cited

High-Stability Single-Ion Clock with Systematic Uncertainty

Mason C. Marshall, Daniel A. Rodriguez Castillo, Willa J. Arthur-Dworschack +10

We report a single-ion optical atomic clock with fractional frequency uncertainty of and fractional frequency stability of $3.5 \times10^{-16}/\sqrt{τ/\mathrm{s…

physics.optics2025

Radio Frequency from Optical with Instabilities below - Generation and Measurement

A. Hati, M. Pomponio, N. V. Nardelli +7

This paper presents a frequency synthesis that achieves exceptional stability by transferring optical signals to the radio frequency (RF) domain at 100 MHz. We describe and charact…

physics.optics2024

Cryogenic sapphire optical reference cavity with crystalline coatings at fractional instability

Jose Valencia, George Iskander, Nicholas V. Nardelli +2

The frequency stability of a laser locked to an optical reference cavity is fundamentally limited by thermal noise in the cavity length. These fluctuations are linked to material d…

physics.optics2022

Optical and microwave metrology at the 10-18 level with an Er/Yb:glass frequency comb

Nicholas V. Nardelli, Holly Leopardi, Thomas R. Schibli +1

Optical frequency combs are an essential tool for precision metrology experiments ranging in application from remote spectroscopic sensing of trace gases to the characterization an…

physics.optics2021★ 26 cited

10 GHz Generation with Ultra-Low Phase Noise via the Transfer Oscillator Technique

Nicholas V. Nardelli, Tara M. Fortier, Marco Pomponio +4

Coherent frequency division of high-stability optical sources permits the extraction of microwave signals with ultra-low phase noise, enabling their application to systems with str…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 3 cited

Optical coherence between atomic species at the second scale: improved clock comparisons via differential spectroscopy

May E. Kim, William F. McGrew, Nicholas V. Nardelli +9

Comparisons of high-accuracy optical atomic clocks \cite{Ludlow2015} are essential for precision tests of fundamental physics \cite{Safronova2018}, relativistic geodesy \cite{McGre…