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A low-noise single-frequency laser is a key component of the space-based gravitational wave detector, and the intensity noise of the laser directly affects the sensitivity of the space-based GW detector. In this work, we report a low-noise single-frequency laser designed for space-based gravitational wave detector. The laser is based on a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA), which is designed to possess a low-power, narrow-linewidth seed laser acting as master oscillator (MO) and an all polarization-maintaining fiber amplifier acting as power amplifier (PA). The amplifier that uses a robust mechanical design consists of an Yb-doped double-clad fiber forward pumped by wavelength-locked 976 nm pump laser diode (LD) to achieve 2.13 W of output power and 70 dB of signal-noise ratio (SNR). To suppress the relative intensity noise (RIN) in a millhertz regime (1 mHz–1 Hz), we characterize the power stabilization of a pump diode laser based on a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) feedback control loop where an in-loop photodetector is used. The power fluctuation can be converted into the fluctuation of the current signal by the photodiode, the current signal is converted into the voltage signal and amplified by a transimpedance circuit. Then, the voltage signal is compared with the voltage reference signal, and the error signal is achieved to adjust real-timely the drive current of the pump laser diode. This is a good way to significantly suppress the RIN of a laser at low frequencies, but the measured RIN below 4 mHz is still higher than –60 dBc/Hz. In order to further suppress the RIN to lower than 4 mHz, an active precise temperature control technology is used to suppress the thermal noise from pump LD and fiber coupler. To assess the RIN milliertz regime, we design an RIN measurement system consisting of a high-precision signal acquisition card (24 bit) and a computer program based on LabVIEW. The measurement range of the system is 2 μHz–102.4 kHz and the frequency resolution up to 2 µHz, much better than the counterparts of commercial instruments. By stabilizing the fiber amplifier pump LD current and the temperature of pump LD and the temperature of fiber coupler, the out-of-loop RINs are measured to be –63.4 dBc/Hz@1 mHz and –105.8 dBc/Hz@1 Hz , and in a milliertz regime of 1 mHz–1 Hz, the RIN is below –60 dBc/Hz. The results show that the feedback control of the fiber amplifier pump LD current and the temperature control of the key devices can effectively suppress the RIN in the millihertz frequency band, which lays a foundation for further improving the intensity noise performance in the low frequency band.
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Keywords:
- single-frequency laser /
- millihertz band /
- relative intensity noise /
- optoelectronic negative feedback
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图 1 低噪声单频激光器的结构示意图
Figure 1. Schematic of the low-noise single-frequency laser system.
图 2 不同温度下泵浦LD的光谱 (a) 不锁波长LD的光谱; (b) 锁波长LD的光谱
Figure 2. Optical spectra of 976 nm pump laser diodes at different temperature: (a) Wavelength-unlocked; (b) wavelength-locked.
图 3 RIN测量示意图
Figure 3. Experimental setup of RIN measurement.
图 4 0.1 mHz—10 Hz频段内的RIN测量结果
Figure 4. Measured RIN in the frequency of 0.1 mHz–10 Hz.
图 5 放大器内部的红外热像图
Figure 5. Infrared thermal image inside the fiber amplifier.
图 6 不同温度下的外环RIN测量结果
Figure 6. RIN measurement results of the out-of-loop at the different temperatures.
图 7 2.13 W 输出时的功率稳定性 (a)、放大前后的光谱(b)和放大器的附加线宽(c)
Figure 7. Power stability (a), optical spectra (b) and additional linewidth (c) at 2.13 W output, respectively.
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[1] Numata K, Yu A, Jiao H, Merritt S, Micalizzi F, Fahey M, Camp J, Krainak M 2019 Proceedings of SPIE: Solid State Lasers XXIII: Technology and Devices 10896 108961H
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Li C 2015 Ph. D. Dissertation (Guangzhou: South China University of Technology) (in Chinese)
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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[16] Guiraud G, Traynor N, Santarelli G 2016 Opt. Lett. 41 4040
Google Scholar
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Yang Z M, Xu S H 2017 Single-frequency Fiber Laser (Beijing: Science Press) p59 (in Chinese)
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[23] Xue M Y, Gao C X, Niu L Q, Zhu A L, Sun C D 2020 Appl. Opt. 59 2610
Google Scholar
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