Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
2007-01-16
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 78, 043101 (2007)
Physics
Optics
Submitted to Review of Scientific Instruments, 4 pages
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2720725
We report on a scheme to improve the pointing stability of the first order beam diffracted by an acousto-optic modulator (AOM). Due to thermal effects inside the crystal, the angular position of the beam can change by as much as 1 mrad when the radio-frequency power in the AOM is reduced to decrease the first order beam intensity. This is done for example to perform forced evaporative cooling in ultracold atom experiments using far-off-resonant optical traps. We solve this problem by driving the AOM with two radio-frequencies $f_1$ and $f_2$. The power of $f_2$ is adjusted relative to the power of $f_1$ to keep the total power constant. Using this, the beam displacement is decreased by a factor of twenty. The method is simple to implement in existing experimental setups, without any modification of the optics.
Fattori Marco
Fröhlich Bernd
Kaltenhäuser Bernd
Koch Th.
Kübler Harald
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