Alignment locking to suspended Fabry-Perot cavity

Date

2005

Authors

Slagmolen, Bram
Barton, Mark
Mow-Lowry, C.
De Vine, Glenn
Rabeling, David
Chow, Jong
Romann, Albert
Zhao, Chunnong
Gray, Malcolm
McClelland, David

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Kluwer Academic Publishers

Abstract

In this paper we report on the alignment locking of an in vacuum 77 m long suspended mirror Fabry-Perot cavity. Lock was achieved by mode-matching a 500 mW Nd:YAG NPRO onto a pre-mode cleaner, the output of which was then mode-matched to the suspended cavity. The longitudinal locking was achieved by feeding back to the laser frequency actuator to follow the cavity resonance. Subsequent implementation of a hybrid auto-alignment system enhanced the stability of the circulating power inside the cavity. Preliminary results are presented.

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Keywords: Auto-alignment; Fabry-Perot; Interferometer; Laser frequency; Suspension

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General Relativity and Gravitation

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