Whispering-gallery-mode resonators for miniature optical clocks

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8236, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yu, Nan ^a   Baumgartel, Lukas M ^a   Chembo, Yanne ^b   Grudinin, Ivan S ^a   Strekalov, Dmitry V ^a   Thompson, Robert J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b FEMTO ST INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

optical clocks; whispering gallery mode resonators

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY COMBS; FREQUENCY REFERENCE; LASER STABILIZATION; OPTICAL CLOCKS; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; QUALITY FACTORS; TEMPERATURE STABILIZATION; ULTRA-HIGH; WHISPERING GALLERY MODE RESONATOR;

ATOMIC CLOCKS; LASER RESONATORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; STABILIZATION;

RESONATORS;

EID: 84863412112     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.909005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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