Ultra-stable, iodine-locked 689 nm monolithic VECSEL

Moriya, PH and Hodges, Charlotte and Hastie, Jennifer; (2026) Ultra-stable, iodine-locked 689 nm monolithic VECSEL. In: British and Irish Conference in Optics and Photonics 2025. Optica Publishing Group, GBR. ISBN 9781957171951 (https://doi.org/10.1364/BICOP.2025.W3B.5)

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Abstract

We explored molecular iodine as an absolute reference for frequency stabilization of a 689 nm monolithic VECSEL, achieving superior coherence and brightness with 10-13 stability (10 s), suitable for strontium-based quantum technology and metrology applications.

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Moriya, PH ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6761-191X, Hodges, Charlotte and Hastie, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4066-7411;