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Dual-axis cubic cavity for drift-compensated multi-wavelength laser stabilisation
- Source :
- Optics express. 29(22)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- We describe a ‘clock control unit’ based on a dual-axis cubic cavity (DACC) for the frequency stabilisation of lasers involved in a strontium optical lattice clock. The DACC, which ultimately targets deployment in space applications, provides a short-term stable reference for all auxiliary lasers—i.e. cooling, clear-out, and optical lattice—in a single multi-band cavity. Long-term cavity drift is compensated by a feed-forward scheme exploiting a fixed physical relation to an orthogonal second cavity axis; either by reference to an ultrastable 698 nm clock laser, or by exploiting the differential drift between orthogonal axes extracted by a single laser in common view. Via a change of mirror set in the cavity axis accessed by the clock laser, the system could also provide stabilisation for sub-Hz linewidths at the 698 nm clock wavelength, fulfilling all stabilisation requirements of the clock.
Details
- ISSN :
- 10944087
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Optics express
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....de21e70cae3c79b9bd32546d0fe88cb6