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Low noise phase-locked laser system for atom interferometry

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A low noise laser system for atom interferometry is realized with phase-locked fiber lasers, where the performance of the OPLL is greatly enhanced by the FEOM feedback loop and the narrow linewidths. The laser system demonstrated contribute 2.2 mrad per shot to the interferometer noise and permit continuous long-term operation for more than 115 h without relocking in the field test. Also, the mobile gravimeter equipped with this phase-locked laser system reaches a sensitivity as good as 29 \(\upmu \text {Gal}/\sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}}\) and a resolution of 1.1 \(\upmu \text {Gal}\) within 1500 s, demonstrating performances comparable to the state of the art.

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Acknowledgements

The author thanks Prof. Shuai Chen and his team for discussions and the work in the field test, and also thanks Precilasers team for their technical support. This work is funded by the Youth Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 11804019), and also supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant no. 2016YFA0301601), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 11674301), Anhui Initiative in Quantum Information Technologies (Grant no. AHY120000), and Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (Grant no. 2019SHZDZX01). Recently, the author became aware that Prof. Franck Pereira Dos Santos and co-workers were also investigating the use of narrow-linewidth fiber lasers and FEOM in a broadband OPLL for atom interferometry [38].

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Jiang, BN. Low noise phase-locked laser system for atom interferometry. Appl. Phys. B 128, 71 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-022-07792-0

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