Temperature-insensitive tunable and stable Fabry-Perot cavity for atomic physics

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Autori principali: Ruelle, Joshua, Hauden, Martin, Ponciano-Ojeda, Francisco S., Delehaye, Marion
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Ruelle, Joshua
Hauden, Martin
Ponciano-Ojeda, Francisco S.
Delehaye, Marion
author_facet Ruelle, Joshua
Hauden, Martin
Ponciano-Ojeda, Francisco S.
Delehaye, Marion
contents Optical Fabry-Perot cavities are crucial tools for metrology experiments, where they achieve extreme length stability, and for some atomic physics experiments, where tunability to atomic transitions enables atom-light interactions. However, achieving both frequency stability and tunability in a single cavity has remained a challenge, forcing metrology experiments exploiting atom-cavity interactions to rely on external active feedback systems to stabilize the length of the cavity. Here, we describe a piezoelectrically-tunable cavity with a cancellation of the coefficient of thermal expansion at around $5^\circ\mathrm{C}$, achieving fractional frequency instabilities at the $4\times 10^{-13}$ level for 1~s integration time. This advance eliminates the need for external stabilization in many atom-cavity experiments, making this design ideal for applications such as ultra-stable superradiant lasers and other cavity quantum electrodynamics experiments.
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spellingShingle Temperature-insensitive tunable and stable Fabry-Perot cavity for atomic physics
Ruelle, Joshua
Hauden, Martin
Ponciano-Ojeda, Francisco S.
Delehaye, Marion
Optics
Atomic Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
Optical Fabry-Perot cavities are crucial tools for metrology experiments, where they achieve extreme length stability, and for some atomic physics experiments, where tunability to atomic transitions enables atom-light interactions. However, achieving both frequency stability and tunability in a single cavity has remained a challenge, forcing metrology experiments exploiting atom-cavity interactions to rely on external active feedback systems to stabilize the length of the cavity. Here, we describe a piezoelectrically-tunable cavity with a cancellation of the coefficient of thermal expansion at around $5^\circ\mathrm{C}$, achieving fractional frequency instabilities at the $4\times 10^{-13}$ level for 1~s integration time. This advance eliminates the need for external stabilization in many atom-cavity experiments, making this design ideal for applications such as ultra-stable superradiant lasers and other cavity quantum electrodynamics experiments.
title Temperature-insensitive tunable and stable Fabry-Perot cavity for atomic physics
topic Optics
Atomic Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11817