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A compact green Ti:Sapphire astro-comb with 43-GHz repetition frequency

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2021-05-07 v1 Optics

Abstract

A compact green astro-comb with 43-GHz repetition rate is developed based on a Ti:Sapphire optical frequency comb (OFC) and a mode-selecting cavity. The OFC's large repetition rate of 1.6 GHz eases the requirements for the mode-selecting cavity. Unnecessary frequency-modes of the OFC are suppressed down to 5×1045 \times 10^{-4} at 535 nm - 550 nm using a single mode-selecting cavity with 70-MHz linewidth. The radial velocity precision σ1.4\sigma \sim 1.4 m/s is achieved at the High Dispersion Echelle Spectrosraph for the Okayama 188-cm telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan using our astro-comb. With further improvements of the mode-selecting cavity and removal of fiber modal noises, our system will provide a simple, compact, and precise astro-comb setup in visible wavelength region.

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@article{arxiv.2101.05926,
  title  = {A compact green Ti:Sapphire astro-comb with 43-GHz repetition frequency},
  author = {Eunmi Chae and Eiji Kambe and Kentaro Motohara and Hideyuki Izumiura and Mamoru Doi and Kosuke Yoshioka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.05926},
  year   = {2021}
}

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10 pages, 7 figures