Dual-Wavelength Good-Bad-Cavity Laser System for Cavity-Stabilized Active Optical Clock

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
Duo PanJingbiao Chen

Abstract

Active optical clocks (AOCs) have the intrinsic suppression of the influence of the cavity's noise on the output frequency, giving rise to the potentially ultranarrow linewidth. To break the cavity's thermal noise limitation by taking full advantage of the AOC's principle, as well as to achieve a long-term instability, we propose a scheme of cavity-stabilized active optical clock. The system consists of two key procedures. The dual-wavelength (DW) output signals share the same cavity and work in the good- and the bad-cavity regime, respectively. Then, the good-cavity signal is locked to a reference cavity by the Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) technique to stabilize the main-cavity length. By doing this, the main-cavity's noise is expected to be reduced to the thermal noise floor of the reference cavity. Hence, the frequency stability of the bad-cavity signal will break this noise floor due to the suppression of the cavity-pulling effect. Experimentally, we realize the DW good-bad-cavity laser system by taking the Nd:YAG 1064 nm and Cs 1470 nm transitions as the good- and bad-cavity gain medium. The power and linewidth characteristics of the DW output are studied. Limitation factors of the clock frequency as well as the feasibility of ...Continue Reading

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