Transportable 1555-nm Ultra-Stable Laser with Sub-0.185-Hz Linewidth

We present two cavity-stabilized lasers at 1555 nm, which are built to be the frequency source for a transportable photonic microwave generation system. The frequency instability reaches the thermal noise limit (7 x 10(-16)) of the 10-cm ultra-low expansion glass cavity at 1 10 s averaging time and the beat signal of the two lasers reveals a remarkable linewidth of 185 mHz.