Vibration-insensitive fiber spool for laser stabilization

Excess frequency noise induced by mechanical vibration is the dominant noise source at low Fourier frequencies in fiber-delay-line stabilized lasers. To resolve this problem, a double-winding fiber spool is designed and implemented that has ultralow acceleration sensitivity in all spatial directions. By carefully choosing the optimal geometry parameters of the fiber spool, we achieve acceleration sensitivity of 8 × 10~(-11)/g and 3 × 10~(-11)/g(g denotes the gravitational acceleration) in axial and radial directions, respectively.     

面向空间引力波探测的低噪声稳频激光器

基于未来卫星间激光干涉任务的需求,介绍了一种基于迈克耳孙光纤干涉仪稳频的1064 nm激光稳频系统,该系统采用全光纤器件,结构紧凑、体积小、可靠性强。通过拍频测试,得到该系统的频率噪声在30 mHz～1 Hz范围内小于30 Hz/Hz1/2,频率稳定度在积分时间为1 s和1000 s时分别为1.2×10-14和3×10-13。该系统的性能满足LISA任务对稳频激光的需求,有望应用于未来的空间引力波探测任务。     

光纤1/f热噪声的实验研究

光纤热噪声是限制光纤传感、测量系统性能的最终因素.但是低频区域呈1/f谱特性的光纤热噪声的形成机制迄今仍然存在争论.实验研究了光纤1/f热噪声水平与光纤内杂质离子浓度和光纤施加张力的关系,验证了这类热噪声来源于光纤内部的机械耗散引起的长度自发抖动,符合热机械噪声的理论假设.     

All-fiber-based laser with 200 mHz linewidth

We demonstrate the frequency stabilization of a 1.55 μm erbium-doped fiber laser by locking it to a 5-km-long optical fiber delay line(FDL). The stabilized laser is characterized via comparison with a second identical laser system. We obtain a fractional frequency stability of better than 3 × 10~(-15) over time scales of 1–10 s and a laser linewidth of 0.2 Hz, which is the narrowest linewidth of an FDL-stabilized laser observed to date.