A tunable, solid, Fabry-Perot ETALON for solar seismology

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Drift (Instrumentation), Etalons, Helioseismology, Solar Instruments, Fabrication, Solar Interior, Sound Waves, Stellar Interiors, Thermal Stability, Tunable Lasers

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A solid etalon has been designed and fabricated from a 50-mm diameter wafer of optical-quality lithium niobate. The finished etalon has a free spectral range of 0.325 nm at 588 nm. The parallel faces are coated with silver, and the central 15-mm aperture of the etalon has a finesse of 18.6. The reflective faces double as electrodes, and application of voltage will shift the passband. This feature was used in a servo circuit to stabilize the passband against temperature and tilt-induced drifts to better than three parts in one billion. Operated in the stabilized mode for day-long sessions, this filter alternately samples the wings of a narrow atomic absorption line in the solar spectrum and produces a signal proportional to velocity on the solar disk. The Fourier transform of this signal yields information on acoustic waves in the solar interior.

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