Laser Frequency Stabilization
Controlling and stabilizing the frequency of a laser beam is of general utility. Examples of specific applications for this include:
- Atmospheric physics
- Atom interferometry, rotation & acceleration
- Atom lithography and optical dipole traps
- Atomic fountains
- Bose Einstein condensate
- Coherent manipulation of ions
- Degenerate Fermi gas
- Degenerate gases in optical lattices simulating solid state physics
- Dipole interaction and dipole blockade
- Doppler cooling
- Electric field measurement
- Fundamental constants and tests of fundamental theories
- Ion traps
- Ionization of neutral atoms
- Laser cooling of trapped ions
- Magneto-cardiography
- Magneto-encephalography
- Magneto-optical trapping (MOT)
- Molecular and atomic spectroscopy
- Non-linear magneto-optical rotation for B-field measurement
- Optical pumping
- Quantum computing
- Quantum cryptography
- Quantum teleportation
- Raman cooling and exotic laser cooling schemes
- Rydberg excitation for quantum optics
- Sisyphus / polarization gradient cooling & optical molasses
- Sources for single or entangled photons
- Time & frequency
- Tuning interactions in degenerate gases