1.5 μm lasers with sub 10 mHz linewidth

We report on two ultrastable lasers stabilized to single-crystal silicon Fabry-Pérot cavities at 124 K. The lasers show unprecedented thermal noise-limited frequency instabilities of 4×10<sup>−17</sup> and linewidths below 10 mHz.

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