• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 16, Issue 12, 121403 (2018)
Lulu Yan1,2, Yanyan Zhang1,2, Zhaoyang Tai1, Pan Zhang1..., Xiaofei Zhang1,2, Wenge Guo1, Shougang Zhang1,2 and Haifeng Jiang1,2,*|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Time and Frequency Primary Standards, National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710600, China
  • 2School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL201816.121403 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Lulu Yan, Yanyan Zhang, Zhaoyang Tai, Pan Zhang, Xiaofei Zhang, Wenge Guo, Shougang Zhang, Haifeng Jiang, "Multi-cavity-stabilized ultrastable laser," Chin. Opt. Lett. 16, 121403 (2018) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We demonstrate a proposal for making an ultrastable laser referenced to a multi-cavity, enabling a lower thermal noise limit due to the averaging effect. In comparison with a single-cavity system, relative frequency instability of the synthesized laser can be improved by a factor of the square root of the cavity number. We perform an experiment to simulate a two-cavity system with two independent ultrastable lasers. Experimental results show that the relative frequency instability (Allan deviation) of the synthesized laser is 5 × 10 16, improved by a factor of √2 from a single-cavity-stabilized laser.
    Gmirror(f)=4kBTω1σ2πEw0(ϕsub+2π12σ1σdw0ϕcoat),(1)

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    Sν(f)ν=2Gmirror(f)L=4kBTπ3/2f1σ2Ew0L2(ϕsub+2π12σ1σdw0ϕcoat),(2)

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    σA=2ln2fSν(f)ν=ln28kBTπ3/21σ2Ew0L2(ϕsub+2π12σ1σdw0ϕcoat).(3)

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    ν1,n=1ni=1nνi,(4)

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    ν1&2=ν2+νAOM=(ν1+ν2)/2νSG1.(5)

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    Lulu Yan, Yanyan Zhang, Zhaoyang Tai, Pan Zhang, Xiaofei Zhang, Wenge Guo, Shougang Zhang, Haifeng Jiang, "Multi-cavity-stabilized ultrastable laser," Chin. Opt. Lett. 16, 121403 (2018)
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