Pump frequency noise coupling into a microcavity by thermo-optic locking
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- Li, Jiang
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Diddams, Scott
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Vahala, Kerry J.
Abstract
As thermo-optic locking is widely used to establish a stable frequency detuning between an external laser and a high Q microcavity, it is important to understand how this method affects microcavity temperature and frequency fluctuations. A theoretical analysis of the laser-microcavity frequency fluctuations is presented and used to find the spectral dependence of the suppression of laser-microcavity, relative frequency noise caused by thermo-optic locking. The response function is that of a high-pass filter with a bandwidth and low-frequency suppression that increase with input power. The results are verified using an external-cavity diode laser and a silica disk resonator. The locking of relative frequency fluctuations causes temperature fluctuations within the microcavity that transfer pump frequency noise onto the microcavity modes over the thermal locking bandwidth. This transfer is verified experimentally. These results are important to investigations of noise properties in many nonlinear microcavity experiments in which low-frequency, optical-pump frequency noise must be considered.
Additional Information
© 2014 Optical Society of America. Received 10 Apr 2014; revised 30 May 2014; accepted 30 May 2014; published 5 Jun 2014. This work is supported by the DARPA ORCHID and QUASAR programs. The authors are also grateful for the support from the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center with support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Kavli NanoScience Institute. J.L. acknowledges the support from the Kavli Nanoscience Institute for a postdoctoral fellowship.Attached Files
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20140731-135551283
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM)
- NSF Physics Frontiers Center
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Kavli NanoScience Institute
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2014-07-31Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-10Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, Kavli Nanoscience Institute