Thermal-noise limited laser stabilization to a crystalline whispering-gallery mode resonator

Author

Alnis, J. ; Schliesser, A. ; Wang, C. ; Kippenberg, T.J. ; Hänsch, T.W.

Author_Institution

Max-Planck-Insitut fur Quantenopt., Garching, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The quality of many laser-based measurements critically depends on the spectral purity of the employed laser source. For this reason, researchers have tried to reduce phase and frequency noise of lasers ever since its invention 50 years ago. These efforts have culminated in laser oscillators with linewidths below 1 Hz, and a relative Allan deviation below 10^-15, by locking a laser to a ~1 dm³-sized Fabry-Perot (FP) cavity, whose geometry and materials has been engineered to reduce the sensitivity to thermal and acoustic perturbations.

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; laser stability; phase noise; thermal noise; whispering gallery modes; Allan deviation; Fabry-Perot cavity; crystalline whispering-gallery mode resonator; frequency noise; laser oscillators; laser source; laser stabilization; laser-based measurements; phase noise; thermal noise; Cavity resonators; Laser noise; Laser stability; Measurement by laser beam; Optical resonators; Optical variables measurement; Thermal stability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943469

Filename

5943469