Compact, Portable, Thermal-Noise-Limited Optical Cavity with Low Acceleration Sensitivity

Megan Lauree Kelleher, Charles A. McLemore, Dahyeon Lee +3

We develop and demonstrate a compact (less than $6$ mL) portable Fabry-Pérot optical reference cavity. A laser locked to the cavity is thermal noise limited at $2\times 10^{-14}$ fr…