Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 45, Issue 9, 901001(2018)
Ultra-Stable Cavity System with Low Drift Rate for Mercury Optical Lattice Clock
The ultra-stable laser is a key component in optical lattice clock, whose frequency stability is limited by the thermal noise and affected by the temperature fluctuation of ultra-stable cavity. Thus the temperature fluctuation is a serious obstacle in pursuing thermal-noise-limit of ultra-stable laser. In this paper, we analyze the requirement of the temperature stability to reach the thermal-noise-limit in frequency domain and time domain, and design the thermal-isolation vacuum system (with one passive thermal shield layer and two active temperature stabilized layers) and the corresponding temperature controller. Having developed the ultra-stable cavity system, we measure the zero-expansion work temperature of the ultra-stable cavity, the temperature transferring time constant of the thermal shield (3.6 d), and the temperature fluctuation of the temperature stabilized layer in vacuum in 11 d (<1 mK). With these data, we calculate the temperature fluctuation of the ultra-stable cavity, and evaluate that the frequency noise induced from the temperature fluctuation which is all below the thermal-noise-limit in 1000 s integration time. Moreover, we also use the clock transition spectrum of the 199Hg cold atoms in magneto-optical trap to measure the long-term drift rate of the ultra-stable cavity (4.2 kHz/d). This frequency drift rate of ultra-stable cavity is competent to mercury optical lattice clock.
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Fu Xiaohu, Fang Su, Zhao Ruchen, Sun Jianfang, Zhang Ye, Xu Zhen, Wang Yuzhu. Ultra-Stable Cavity System with Low Drift Rate for Mercury Optical Lattice Clock[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2018, 45(9): 901001
Category: laser devices and laser physics
Received: Feb. 21, 2018
Accepted: --
Published Online: Sep. 8, 2018
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