New method for residual amplitude modulation control in fibered optical experiments
Optics
2021-11-03 v2 Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
When locking the frequency of a laser to an optical cavity resonance, the residual amplitude modulation (RAM), which accompanies the phase modulation necessary to build the error signal, is a major limitation to the frequency stability. We show that the popular method demonstrated by Wong and Hall to cancel this effect, based on the measurement of the RAM using an auxiliary detector, is limited in the case of optical setups exhibiting polarization dependent losses and an imperfect polarizer at the modulator output, such as guided-wave optical systems. We propose and demonstrate a new method, using a single photodetector, to generate the two error signals and demonstrate its usefulness in the case of fibered systems.
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@article{arxiv.2107.12057,
title = {New method for residual amplitude modulation control in fibered optical experiments},
author = {Maxime Descampeaux and Gilles Feugnet and Fabien Bretenaker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.12057},
year = {2021}
}