We report the development of a fast pulse polarimeter for the application to quantum non-demolition measurement of atomic spin (Spin QND). The developed system was tunable to the atomic resonance of ytterbium atom and has narrow laser linewidth suitable for spin QND. Using the developed polarimeter, we successfully demonstrated the measurement of the vacuum noise, with 10 to 10 photon number pe...

Abstract Ba 3 Yb 2 Zn 5 O 11 is exceptional among breathing pyrochlore compounds for being in the nearly-decoupled limit where inter-tetrahedron interactions are weak, hosting isolated clusters or molecular magnet-like tetrahedra of magnetic ytterbium (Yb 3+ ) ions. In this work, we present study carried out on single-crystal samples , using a variety magnetometry and neutron scattering techniq...

The authors experimentally demonstrate the production of quantum degenerate Bose-Bose mixtures cesium and ytterbium with attractive repulsive interactions through sympathetic cooling. This development adds another system to ultracold-atom toolbox, enabling future studies droplets binary fluid dynamics.

[email protected] An Erbium:Ytterbium codoped microcavity-based laser which is lithographically fabricated from sol-gel is demonstrated. Both single-mode and multimode lasing is observed in the C band (1550nm). The quality factor and pump threshold are experimentally determined for a series of erbium and ytterbium doping concentrations, verifying the interdependent relationship between the two dop...

Collisional Perturbation of States in Atomic Ytterbium by Helium and Neon D.F. Kimball, D. Clyde, D. Budker, D. DeMille, S.J. Freedman, S. Rochester, J.E. Stalnaker, and M. Zolotorev a Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7300 b Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 c Physics Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT 065...

A diode-pumped Yb>(3+):Ca(4)GdO(BO>(3))(3) (Yb:GdCOB) laser generating 90-fs pulses at a center wavelength of 1045 nm is demonstrated. This is, to our knowledge, the shortest pulse duration obtained from an ytterbium laser with a crystalline host. This laser is mode locked with a high-finesse semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror and emits 40 mW of average power at a repetition rate of 100 MHz.

We have demonstrated suppression and elimination of self-pulsing in a watt-level, dual-clad, ytterbium-doped fiber laser. The addition of a long section of passive fiber in the laser cavity makes the gain recovery faster than the self-pulsation dynamics, allowing only stable cw lasing. This scheme provides a simple and practical method for eliminating self-pulsations in fiber lasers at all pump...