Locking the frequency of lasers to an optical cavity at the 1.6x10-17 relative instability level

被引：16

作者：

Chen, Q. -F. ^{[1
]}

Nevsky, A. ^{[1
]}

Schiller, S. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Dusseldorf, Inst Expt Phys, D-40225 Dusseldorf, Germany

来源：

APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS | 2012年 / 107卷 / 03期

关键词：

STABILIZATION;

D O I：

10.1007/s00340-012-5014-9

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We stabilized the frequencies of two independent Nd:YAG lasers to two adjacent longitudinal modes of a high-finesse Fabry-P,rot resonator and obtained a beat frequency instability of 6.3 mHz at an integration time of 40 s. Referred to a single laser, this is 1.6x10(-17) relative to the laser frequency, and 1.3x10(-6) relative to the full width at half maximum of the cavity resonance. The amplitude spectrum of the beat signal had a FWHM of 7.8 mHz. This stable frequency locking is of importance for next-generation optical clock interrogation lasers and fundamental physics tests.

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页码：679 / 683

页数：5

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