Fabien Theron | Searcharxiv

arXiv2016

Frequency doubled telecom fiber laser for a cold atom interferometer using optical lattices

A compact and robust laser system, based on a frequency-doubled telecom laser, providing all the lasers needed for a rubidium cold atom interferometer using optical lattices is presented. Thanks to an optical switch at 1.5 μm and a dual-wavelength second harmonic generation system, only one laser amplifier is needed for all the laser system. Our system delivers at 780 nm a power of 900 mW with a detuning of 110 GHz for the optical lattice and a power of 650 mW with an adjustable detuning between 0 and -1 GHz for the laser cooling, the detection and the Raman transitions.

physics.optics↗

arXiv2015

Narrow linewidth single laser source system for onboard atom interferometry

A compact and robust laser system for atom interferometry based on a frequency-doubled telecom laser is presented. Thanks to an original stabilization architecture on a saturated absorption setup, we obtain a frequency-agile laser system allowing fast tuning of the laser frequency over 1 GHz in few ms using a single laser source. The different laser frequencies used for atom interferometry are generated by changing dynamically the frequency of the laser and by creating sidebands using a phase modulator. A laser system for Rubidium 87 atom interferometry using only one laser source based on a frequency doubled telecom fiber bench is then built. We take advantage of the maturity of fiber telecom technology to reduce the number of free-space optical components (which are intrinsically less stable) and to make the setup compact and much less sensitive to vibrations and thermal fluctuations. This source provides spectral linewidth below 2.5 kHz, which is required for precision atom interferometry, and particularly for a high performance atomic inertial sensor.

physics.atom-ph↗