Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
May 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009cqgra..26i4016l&link_type=abstract
Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 26, Issue 9, pp. 094016 (2009).
Computer Science
Performance
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Scientific paper
Laser frequency noise mitigation is one of the most challenging aspects of the LISA interferometric measurement system. The unstabilized frequency fluctuations must be suppressed by roughly 12 orders of magnitude in order to achieve stability sufficient for gravitational wave detection. This enormous suppression will be achieved through a combination of stabilization and common-mode rejection techniques. The stabilization component will itself be achieved in two stages: pre-stabilization to a local optical reference followed by arm locking to some combination of the inter-spacecraft distances. In order for these two stabilization stages to work simultaneously, the lock-point of the pre-stabilization loop must be frequency tunable. The current baseline stabilization technique, Pound-Drever-Hall locking to an optical cavity, does not provide tunability between cavity resonances. Here we present a modification to the baseline technique that allows the laser to be locked to a cavity resonance with an adjustable frequency offset. This technique requires no modifications to the optical cavity itself, thus preserving the stability of the frequency reference. We present measurements of the system performance and demonstrate that the offset locking techniques are compatible with arm locking.
Ira Thorpe James
Livas Jeffrey C.
Mitryk Shawn
Mueller George
Numata Kenji
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