Thermal noise limited higher-order mode locking of a reference cavity
Instrumentation and Detectors
2018-05-09 v1 Optics
Abstract
Higher-order mode locking has been proposed to reduce the thermal noise limit of reference cavities. By locking a laser to the HG02 mode of a 10-cm long all ULE cavity, and measure its performance with the three-cornered-hat method among three independently stabilized lasers, we demonstrate a thermal noise limited performance of a fractional frequency instability of 4.9E-16. The results match the theoretical models with higher-order optical modes. The achieved laser instability improves the all ULE short cavity results to a new low level.
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@article{arxiv.1801.05026,
title = {Thermal noise limited higher-order mode locking of a reference cavity},
author = {X. Y. Zeng and Y. X. Ye and X. H. Shi and Z. Y. Wang and K. Deng and J. Zhang and Z. H. Lu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05026},
year = {2018}
}
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12pages, 4figures