Author Affiliations
Abstract
State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
We report two ultra-stable laser systems automatically frequency-stabilized to two high-finesse optical cavities. By employing analog-digital hybrid proportional integral derivative (PID) controllers, we keep the merits of wide servo bandwidth and servo accuracy by using analog circuits for the PID controller, and, at the same time, we realize automatic laser frequency locking by introducing digital logic into the PID controller. The lasers can be automatically frequency-stabilized to their reference cavities, and it can be relocked in 0.3 s when interruption happens, i.e., blocking and unblocking the laser light. These automatic frequency-stabilized lasers are measured to have a frequency instability of 6×10-16 at 1 s averaging time and a most probable linewidth of 0.3 Hz. The laser systems were tested for continuous operation over 11 days. Such ultra-stable laser systems in long-term robust operation will be beneficial to the applications of optical atomic clocks and precision measurement based on frequency-stabilized lasers.
narrow-linewidth laser automatic frequency stabilization optical atomic clock gravitational wave detection 
Chinese Optics Letters
2022, 20(7): 070201
吉经纬 1,2程鹤楠 1,2张镇 1,2刘亢亢 1[ ... ]吕德胜 1,*
作者单位
摘要
1 中国科学院上海光学精密机械研究所量子光学重点实验室, 上海 201800
2 中国科学院大学, 北京 100049
能够长期自主运行的稳频激光器是喷泉原子钟连续工作的基础。基于铷原子喷泉钟中的780 nm商用半导体激光器,利用嵌入式系统设计了一个长期全自动稳频系统。该系统具有自动识别铷饱和吸收谱线的目标峰、长期锁定频率与意外失锁后的快速重锁的功能。提出了一种动态调整工作点的方法。在激光器长期运行过程中,受温度、湿度和器件老化等因素的影响,目标工作点会随时间发生变化,所提方法可解决该问题。利用该方法,激光器的稳频系统不易失锁,即使失锁也可以快速重新锁回。将所提稳频系统成功应用于可搬运铷喷泉原子钟中,铷喷泉原子钟在搬运后能够快速投入工作,激光频率的长期锁定时间可达一个月以上。激光频率相对于铷饱和参考谱线的频率长期稳定度约为2.3×10 -13,可搬运铷喷泉原子钟的长期稳定度在搬运前后均达到了10 -16量级。
激光器 激光冷却 喷泉原子钟 自动稳频 稳定度 
光学学报
2020, 40(22): 2214002

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