A broadband passive cavity for analyzing and filtering the noise of a femtosecond laser

Xiang Xiao; Wang Shao-Feng; Hou Fei-Yan; Quan Run-Ai; Zhai Yi-Wei; Wang Meng-Meng; Zhou Cong-Hua; Xu Guan-Jun; Dong Rui-Fang; Liu Tao; Zhang Shou-Gang

doi:10.7498/aps.65.134203

Abstract

In this paper, the noise filtering effect on a femtosecond laser source via a broadband passive cavity is analyzed in detail. The results show that a passive optical cavity not only can be used as a low-pass noise filter, but also can inter-convert the phase and amplitude fluctuations of a light beam after transmission or reflection. Therefore, by measuring the intensity noise of the light field under test after transmission and reflection from a passive cavity, its phase noise properties can be explored. Based on this theoretical model, an eight-mirror ring passive cavity with a finesse of 1500 and a free spectral range of 75 MHz is designed and built. With a commercial Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser as a source, its intensity noises after transmission and reflection from the above cavity are measured with home-made self-homodyne detection setup. Furthermore, with the help of the noise conversion model of the passive cavity, the phase noise of the femtosecond laser as well as its evolution through the cavity transmission and reflection is indirectly derived. The result shows that after transmission through the passive cavity, both the amplitude and phase noise of the femtosecond laser source are evidently suppressed and reach the shot noise limit at the analyzing frequency of 2 MHz.

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Authors and contacts

1.
Key Laboratory of Time and Frequency Primary Standards, National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710600, China;
2.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Corresponding author: Dong Rui-Fang, dongruifang@ntsc.ac.cn;taoliu@ntsc.ac.cn ; Liu Tao, dongruifang@ntsc.ac.cn;taoliu@ntsc.ac.cn ;

Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11174282, 91336108, 11273024, 61127901), the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11403031), the CAS Interdisciplinary Innovation Team Science and Technology Innovation Project (Grant No.(2012) 119), the Research Equipment Development Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Young Top-notch Talents Program of Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, China (Grant No. [2013]33).

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[2]	Udem T, Holzwarth R, Hnsch T W 2002 Nature 416 233
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[8]	Liu T Y, Zhang F M, Wu H Z, Li J S, Shi Y Q, Qu X H 2016 Acta Phys. Sin. 65 020601 (in Chinese) [刘亭洋, 张福民, 吴翰钟, 李建双, 石永强, 曲兴华 2016 物理学报 65 020601]
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[14]	Schmeissner R 2014 Ph. D. Dissertation (Paris: University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI)
[15]	Schimpf D, Schmeissner R, Schulte J, Liu W, Krtner F, Treps N 2014 Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, Okinawa, Japan, July 7-11, 2014, p732
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[17]	Pupeza I 2012 Power Scaling of Enhancement Cavities for Nonlinear Optics ( New York: Springer)p17
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[19]	Lu H G, Jiang Y Y, Bi Z Y 2006 Chinese J. Lasers 33 1675 (in Chinese) [鲁红刚, 蒋燕义, 毕志毅 2006 中国激光 33 1675]
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[21]	Siegman A E 1986 Lasers (California: University Science Books) pp955-964
[22]	Jones D J, Scott A, Diddams S A, Ranka J K, Stentz A, Windeler R S, Hall J L, Cundiff S T 2000 Science 288 635

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