Progress in Ultra-Stable Laser Source and Future Prospects
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 12
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical cavity; gravitational wave detection; dark matter theory and detection; Brownian thermal noise theory; ultra-stable lasers and their applications
Interests: ultra-stable laser; optical cavity; optical frequency transfer; automatic frequency stabilization; optical clock
Interests: single frequency lasers; ultra-stable lasers; spaceborne gravitational wave detection; Fabry–Perot cavities; whispering gallery mode cavities
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
An ultra-stable laser is a high-performance optical frequency oscillator, which boasts advantages such as low frequency noise, narrow linewidth, and excellent coherence.
Ultra-stable lasers are widely used in fundamental scientific fields such as gravitational wave detection, gravitational redshift measurement, relativistic tests, high-precision spectroscopy, and very long baseline interferometry. They also have important applications in industrial fields such as laser gyroscopes, navigation and communication, laser ranging, coherent communication, and optically generated ultra-stable microwave sources.
This Special Issue aims to provide a broad overview of the research trends in ultra-stable lasers, with a particular emphasis on advancements in stable laser sources and future prospects. We invite researchers to submit manuscripts to this Special Issue. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Optical cavity;
- Optical frequency transfer;
- Optical frequency comb;
- Atomic clock;
- Fiber-stabilized laser;
- Gravitational wave detection;
- Quantum network;
- Precision measurement of Rydberg atoms;
- Optical microcavity.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Guanjun Xu
Dr. Dongdong Jiao
Dr. Lingqiang Meng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical cavity
- ultra-stable laser
- optical frequency transfer
- optical frequency comb
- atomic clock
- fiber-stabilized laser
- optical microcavity
- automatic frequency stabilization
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