The team "Laser Interferometry, Metrology and Stabilisation" explores and develops new approaches in :
- Measurement with laser interferometry
- Metrology of lasers and photonic devices
- Stabilisation of lasers
Team Permanent Members :
Michel Lintz (Dr, HdR), research fellow - CNRS (also member of LISA team)
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Fabien Kéfélian (Dr), associate professor - Université de Nice (also member of VIRGO/Pre-Stabilized-Laser team)
Associate Members :
- Jean-Pierre Coulon, electronics engineer - CNRS (also member of VIRGO/Pre-Stabilized-Laser team)
Current projects :
- Long term laser stabilization (M. Lintz) (CNES funding)
- Spectral narrowing of diode laser (M. Lintz) (CNES funding)
- Spectral transfert of coherence (F. Kéfélian) (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, First-TF network, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur & Université de Nice fundings)
NEWS :
- 29/06/17 : CLEO Europe/EQEC at Munich : Presentation of Experimental evidence of a fundamental noise floor at the tens of millihertz level in laser locking onto unbalanced fibre-based Michelson interferometer (F. Audo, J.-P. Coulon et F. Kéfélian)
- 08/06/17 : Presentation by Fabien Kéfélian of Experimental evidence of a frequency noise floor at 0.1 Hz/Hz^0.5 in laser locking onto Michelson fiber based interferometer (F. Audo, J.-P. Coulon and F. Kéfélian ) at the annual general assembly of the network of excellence First-TF (Network for Research, Innovation, Education, Services and Training in Time-Frequency, "LABEX")
- 25/04/17 : Arrival of Maxence Dupriez, trainee from université de Lille in master "light - matter", to work on long term laser stabilization by double locking on fiber based Fabry-perot interferometer under the supervision of M. Lintz
- 25/03/17 : Doctoral subject 2017: Applications of the laser double lock to laser frequency stabilisation
- 23/03/17 : Experimental evidence of a fundamental noise floor at the tens of millihertz level in laser locking onto unbalanced fibre-based Michelson interferometer, par F. Audo, J.-P. Coulon et F. Kéfélian accepted at CLEO Europe/EQEC 2017
- 03/02/17 : Release of the paper Efficient diode laser line narrowing using dual, feed-forward + feed-back laser frequency control by M. Lintz, D.-H. Phung, J.-P. Coulon, B. Faure and T. Leveque, in Review of Scientific Instruments 88, 026102 (2017)
- 31/01/17 : Internship subject 2017 (master student or engineer's degree student in optics/photonics )
- 07/10/16 : Presentation by Michel Lintz of "Dual", feed-forward + feed-back frequency control for efficient and convenient diode laser line narrowing at ICSO, International Conference on Space Optics (Biarritz)
Former projects :
Former members:
- Maxence Dupriez, trainee 2nd year of master in physics option "light - matter" in université de Lille - 2017
- Frédéric Audo, contract researcher in 2016 (now in Université de Dijon ICB)
- Yassine Barje, trainee (Master Limoges) 2016
- Lin Wei Yu, trainee (Master SupOptique) 2016
- Mathieu Daldosso, trainee (INSA Toulouse) 2014
- Ha Phung, contract engineer in 2013, doctoral candidate 09/09-06/13 (now in GeoAzur)
- Clément Courde, doctoral candidate 09/07-02/11 (now in GeoAzur)
- Alain Brillet, senior research fellow (now retired)
