Ultrastable lasers based on vibration insensitive cavities

J. Millo, D. V. Magalhães, C. Mandache, Y. Le Coq, E. M. L. English, P. G. Westergaard, J. Lodewyck, S. Bize, P. Lemonde, and G. Santarelli
Phys. Rev. A 79, 053829 – Published 18 May 2009

Abstract

We present two ultrastable lasers based on two vibration insensitive cavity designs, one with vertical optical axis geometry, the other horizontal. Ultrastable cavities are constructed with fused silica mirror substrates, shown to decrease the thermal noise limit, in order to improve the frequency stability over previous designs. Vibration sensitivity components measured are equal to or better than 1.5×1011/ms2 for each spatial direction, which shows significant improvement over previous studies. We have tested the very low dependence on the position of the cavity support points, in order to establish that our designs eliminate the need for fine tuning to achieve extremely low vibration sensitivity. Relative frequency measurements show that at least one of the stabilized lasers has a stability better than 5.6×1016 at 1 s, which is the best result obtained for this length of cavity.

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  • Received 5 February 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.79.053829

©2009 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

J. Millo, D. V. Magalhães, C. Mandache, Y. Le Coq, E. M. L. English*, P. G. Westergaard, J. Lodewyck, S. Bize, P. Lemonde, and G. Santarelli

  • LNE-SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, UPMC, 61 Avenue de l’Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France

  • *elizabeth.english@obspm.fr

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Vol. 79, Iss. 5 — May 2009

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