Vibration-insensitive mounting of a reference cavity for an optical clock

Author

Nazarova, T. ; Riehle, F. ; Sterr, U.

Author_Institution

Phys.-Tech. Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany

fYear

2006

fDate

27-30 March 2006

Firstpage

367

Lastpage

372

Abstract

We report on a novel vibration-insensitive mounting design of the reference cavity used for stabilization of the clock laser in an optical frequency standard. The cavity is supported in the horizontal symmetry plane on four supporting points while the optical axis is oriented horizontally. The positions of the points have been optimized by finite element analysis. This has resulted in a measured sensitivity to acceleration of 1.5 kHz/(m/s²) in the vertical and 14 kHz/(m/s²) in the horizontal direction. This is a reduction of two orders of magnitude in the vertical and one order of magnitude in the horizontal direction compared to the support from below.

Keywords

atomic clocks; finite element analysis; frequency standards; laser cavity resonators; laser frequency stability; optical design techniques; clock laser stabilization; finite element analysis; horizontal direction; horizontal symmetry plane; optical axis; optical clock; optical frequency standard; reference cavity; vertical direction; vibration-insensitive mounting design; Acceleration; Atomic measurements; Clocks; Frequency measurement; Frequency modulation; Standards; Vibrations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frequency and Time Forum (EFTF), 2006 20th European

Conference_Location

Braunschweig

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2642-1

Type

conf

Filename

6231007