2018/02/06 by Zhaoyang Tai, Tai, Zhaoyang, Lulu Yan +15
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards #Geophysics and Sensor Technology #physics.ins-det #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1802.01775
5 pages 4 figures
arxiv created 2018/02/06 · arxiv updated 2018/02/07
In this letter, we demonstrate a technique of making an ultrastable laser referenced to a multi-cavity, corresponding to a lower thermal noise limit due to the larger equivalent beam size. The multi-cavity consists of several pairs of mirrors and a common spacer. We can stabilize the laser frequencies on these cavities, and average the laser frequencies with synthesizing technique. In comparison with a single cavity system, relative frequency instability of the synthesized laser can be improved by a factor of the squire root of the cavity number (n). In addition, we perform an experiment to simulate a two-cavity system. Experimental results show that frequency instability of the synthesized laser is improved by a factor of 1.4, and discrimination of the laser frequency instability, introduced by the process of lasers synthesizing, is negligible, and can reach a floor at low level 10-18 limited by noise of currently used signal generators. This technique is comparable with other techniques; thus, it can gain a factor of the squre root of n on the frequency instability of an ultrastable laser to an unprecedented level.