Ultra-stable transportable ultraviolet clock laser using cancellation between photo-thermal and photo-birefringence noise

Abstract

Optical clocks require an ultra-stable laser to probe and precisely measure the frequency of the narrow-linewidth clock transition. We introduce a portable ultraviolet (UV) laser system for use in an aluminum quantum logic clock, demonstrating a fractional frequency instability of approximately $\mathrm{mod}{\sigma }_{\mathrm{y}}=2\times 10^{-16}$. The system is based on an ultra-stable cavity with crystalline AlGaAs/GaAs mirror coatings, alongside with a frequency quadrupling system employing two single-pass second harmonic generation (SHG) stages. Its acceleration sensitivity, measured in all three axes, does not exceed $4(2)\times 10^{-12}$/(ms${}^{-2}$) and is among the lowest recorded for transportable systems to date. Additionally, partial cancellation between photo-thermal noise and photo-birefringence noise is used to effectively mitigate noise induced by intra-cavity optical power fluctuation at lower Fourier frequencies.

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