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Hauptverfasser: Zwettler, Timo, Xue, Zeyang, Bolognini, Gaia, Bühler, Tabea, Hruby, Lorenz, Fabre, Aurélien, Donner, Tobias, Brantut, Jean-Philippe
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16065
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author Zwettler, Timo
Xue, Zeyang
Bolognini, Gaia
Bühler, Tabea
Hruby, Lorenz
Fabre, Aurélien
Donner, Tobias
Brantut, Jean-Philippe
author_facet Zwettler, Timo
Xue, Zeyang
Bolognini, Gaia
Bühler, Tabea
Hruby, Lorenz
Fabre, Aurélien
Donner, Tobias
Brantut, Jean-Philippe
contents We describe the design and operation of a high-stability Fabry-Perot cavity, for laser stabilization in cavity quantum-electrodynamics experiments. Our design is based on an inexpensive and readily available uniaxial carbon-fiber reinforced polymer tube spacer, featuring an ultra-low thermal expansion coefficient. As a result, our $136\mathrm{mm}$-long cavity, which has a finesse of ${5160}$, shows a coefficient of thermal expansion of $1.6 \times 10^{-6}~\mathrm{K}^{-1}$. Enclosing it in a hermetic chamber at room-pressure and using a simple temperature stabilization, we observe absolute frequency excursions over a full day below $50~\mathrm{MHz}$ for a laser operating at $446.785\mathrm{THz}$. The frequency stability is limited by the imperfect thermal isolation from the environment and can be corrected using a built-in piezo-electric actuator. In addition, we discuss a different variant of this design and identify future improvements. Our system provides a cost-effective and robust solution for transferring laser stability over different wavelengths, as well as for linewidth reduction or spectral filtering of CW laser sources for applications in quantum science.
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spellingShingle Simple, highly-stable transfer cavity for laser stabilization based on a carbon-fiber reinforced polymer spacer
Zwettler, Timo
Xue, Zeyang
Bolognini, Gaia
Bühler, Tabea
Hruby, Lorenz
Fabre, Aurélien
Donner, Tobias
Brantut, Jean-Philippe
Atomic Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
Optics
We describe the design and operation of a high-stability Fabry-Perot cavity, for laser stabilization in cavity quantum-electrodynamics experiments. Our design is based on an inexpensive and readily available uniaxial carbon-fiber reinforced polymer tube spacer, featuring an ultra-low thermal expansion coefficient. As a result, our $136\mathrm{mm}$-long cavity, which has a finesse of ${5160}$, shows a coefficient of thermal expansion of $1.6 \times 10^{-6}~\mathrm{K}^{-1}$. Enclosing it in a hermetic chamber at room-pressure and using a simple temperature stabilization, we observe absolute frequency excursions over a full day below $50~\mathrm{MHz}$ for a laser operating at $446.785\mathrm{THz}$. The frequency stability is limited by the imperfect thermal isolation from the environment and can be corrected using a built-in piezo-electric actuator. In addition, we discuss a different variant of this design and identify future improvements. Our system provides a cost-effective and robust solution for transferring laser stability over different wavelengths, as well as for linewidth reduction or spectral filtering of CW laser sources for applications in quantum science.
title Simple, highly-stable transfer cavity for laser stabilization based on a carbon-fiber reinforced polymer spacer
topic Atomic Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16065