• DocumentCode
    1659335
  • Title

    Dual mode frequency stabilization of a whispering gallery mode optical reference cavity

  • Author

    Baumgartel, Lukas ; Thompson, Robert ; Strekalov, Dmitry ; Grudinin, Ivan ; Yu, Nan

  • Author_Institution
    Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report on whispering gallery mode resonators used as reference cavities for laser frequency stabilization. Differential sensing of orthogonal modes allows active control of the resonator temperature, improving the locked laser´s frequency stability.
  • Keywords
    laser cavity resonators; laser frequency stability; laser mode locking; optical control; whispering gallery modes; active control; differential sensing; dual mode frequency stabilization; laser frequency stabilization; locked laser frequency stability; orthogonal modes; resonator temperature; whispering gallery mode optical reference cavity; whispering gallery mode resonators; Adaptive optics; Cavity resonators; Frequency modulation; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical resonators; Resonant frequency;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325876