Optical frequency manipulation
11303088 · 2022-04-12
Assignee
Inventors
- Yu-Hung Lien (Birmingham, GB)
- Michael Holynski (Birmingham, GB)
- Lingxiao Zhu (Birmingham, GB)
- Kai Bongs (Birmingham, GB)
Cpc classification
H01S3/0092
ELECTRICITY
H01S3/005
ELECTRICITY
G21K1/006
PHYSICS
G02F1/2255
PHYSICS
International classification
H01S3/10
ELECTRICITY
Abstract
An optical frequency manipulation using an optical subsystem configured to provide a modulated laser beam for interaction with an atomic sample. The optical system may include: an optical subsystem for producing a light beam, the optical subsystem having a laser source and an IQ modulator, wherein the IQ modulator is operable to modulate light from the laser source at a carrier frequency to produce modulated light having a single sideband at a sideband frequency; and a chamber for containing an atomic sample, wherein the optical subsystem is arranged to direct the light beam towards the chamber to interact with an atomic sample contained therein.
Claims
1. An optical system, comprising: an optical subsystem for producing a light beam, the optical subsystem comprising a laser source and an IQ modulator, wherein the IQ modulator is operable to modulate light from the laser source at a carrier frequency to produce modulated light having a carrier at the carrier frequency and a single sideband at a sideband frequency; a nonlinear optical frequency converter coupled to an output of the IQ modulator, the nonlinear optical frequency converter being configured as a bandpass filter; and a chamber for containing an atomic sample, wherein the optical subsystem is arranged to direct the light beam from the nonlinear optical frequency converter towards the chamber as a frequency pair to drive a two-photon Raman transition within an atomic sample contained therein.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein the IQ modulator is configured to suppress a second sideband at a second sideband frequency by at least 20 dB relative to the power of the carrier frequency.
3. An atom interferometer system comprising: an optical subsystem for producing a light beam, the optical subsystem comprising a laser source and an IQ modulator, wherein the IQ modulator is operable to modulate light from the laser source at a carrier frequency to produce modulated light having a carrier at the carrier frequency and a single sideband at a sideband frequency; a nonlinear optical frequency converter coupled to an output of the IQ modulator, the nonlinear optical frequency converter being configured as a bandpass filter; and a chamber for containing an atomic sample, wherein the optical subsystem is arranged to direct the light beam from the nonlinear optical frequency converter towards the chamber as a frequency pair to drive a two-photon Raman transition within an atomic sample contained therein, and wherein the chamber comprises a magneto-optical trap for containing a cold atom cloud.
4. A method of generating a light beam for interaction with an atomic sample, the method comprising: generating a light beam having a carrier frequency using a laser light source; modulating the light beam using an IQ modulator to provide a modulated light beam having a carrier at the carrier frequency and a single sideband at a sideband frequency; directing the modulated light beam to a nonlinear optical frequency converter to convert the frequencies of the modulated light, the nonlinear optical frequency converter operating as a bandpass filter; and directing the converted and modulated light beam into a chamber as a frequency pair to drive a two-photon Raman transition within an atomic sample contained in the chamber.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein the IQ modulator suppresses a second sideband at a second sideband frequency by at least 20 dB relative to the power of the carrier frequency.
6. The method of claim 4 wherein the chamber comprises a magneto-optical trap containing a cold atom cloud.
Description
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
(1) The invention is described in further detail below by way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
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OPTICAL SINGLE SIDEBAND GENERATION
(17) In the field of optical communications, IQ modulators are widely applied to achieve single sideband modulation. One popular implementation of IQ modulators is a dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator (DP-MZM). The simplified architecture is illustrated in
(18) The conventional optical phase modulator essentially generates an optical double sideband modulation (ODSB) on a laser beam. The electrical field of the modulated laser beam can be expressed as:
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where ω.sub.c, ω.sub.m, β, J.sub.n(β) are carrier frequency, modulation frequency, modulation index and Bessel functions of the first kind, respectively.
(20) For simplicity, considering a small modulation index and assuming that both MZI.sub.1 and MZI.sub.2 are biased at the same point, i.e. Δϕ.sub.1=Δϕ.sub.2=Δϕ.sub.0, and that
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the electric field at the output of an IQ modulator can be expressed as:
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(23) Based on Eq. 2, a carrier with only +1st order (or −1st order) sideband can be created when Δϕ.sub.3=π/2(Δϕ.sub.3=−π/2). The power ratio between the carrier and the sideband is controlled by the modulation index β and the phase delay Δϕ.sub.0. Likewise, A single sideband with suppressed carrier can also be created by setting Δϕ.sub.3=π. A schematic spectrum of the IQ modulator output is shown in
(24) In a second mode, which may be described as an Optical Single Sideband-Suppressed Carrier (OSSB-SC) mode, illustrated in
(25) Apparatus
(26) An IQ modulator may be used to generate laser frequency pairs for Raman transition in an atom interferometer. An example experimental setup is schematically shown in
Δϕ=(k.sub.effg−α)T.sup.2 (Eq. 3)
where g is the local gravity acceleration, T is the separation time between pulses, k.sub.eff=k.sub.1+k.sub.2 is the effective wavevector, and a is the chirp rate necessary to counter the Doppler shift [11].
Laser System
(27) In the example system illustrated in
(28) The IQ modulator 408 (MXIQ-LN-40) is inserted between the seed laser 407 and EDFA 409 to create the other frequency component for two-photon Raman transition. The spectra in 1560 nm and 780 nm are monitored by respective Fabry-Perot cavities 411, 414, whose free spectral ranges (FSR) are 10 GHz and 1.5 GHz respectively. The in-phase and quadrature RF signals to drive the IQ modulator 408 originate from a signal generator 418. The output RF signal is amplified by an amplifier 417 before being split into two paths by a splitter 415. One path is sent to a phase shifter 416, where a bias phase is added before being applied to the quadrature terminal Q of the IQ modulator 408. The other path is directed to the in-phase terminal I of the IQ modulator 408.
(29) Spectrum
(30) The spectrum before and after the PPLN 412 is measured through the two FP cavities 411, 414. To realize a single side band, a DC bias (termed V3) input to the IQ modulator 408 is manually adjusted until the −1st sideband before the PPLN 412 is cancelled. The amplitude ratio between the carrier and the +1st sideband can be adjusted by changing the modulation index or further DC biases input to the IQ modulator 408 (termed biases V1 and V2).
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(32) After the PPLN 213, the spectrum shown in
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(34) In general therefore, a single laser system for atom interferometry experiments has been shown, using the two modulation techniques outlined above, which can realize atom cooling and Raman transition. A single sideband with carrier is shown possible, in which additional laser lines can be suppressed to negligible levels. This technique can generate the Raman laser frequencies to drive two-photon Raman transition with low phase noise. In addition, the interference caused by additional laser lines can be eliminated, as discussed further below.
(35) Spatially Dependent Raman Transition
(36) In the conventional phase modulation (ODSB), there are multiple pairs of frequencies, e.g. 202-203 and 202-204 that can drive resonant two-photon Raman transitions. The effective Rabi frequency contains a spatial dependence with a periodicity of λ.sub.rf/2, where λ.sub.rf is the wavelength of the RF applied on the phase modulator [24]. This means that, for Raman transition along the interferometry region, the transition condition is modified [25].
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(38) Phase Shift and Contrast
(39) The spatially dependent phase shift induced by the additional laser lines in Mach-Zehnder atom interferometry [26] can be eliminated by employing a Raman laser generated by the OSSB-FC scheme. To verify this, the Mach-Zehnder atom interferometer was operated at two different positions, P1 and P2, which are indicated in
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(41) TABLE-US-00001 Phase Shift (mrad) Contrast Scheme P1 P2 P1 P2 ODSB (U) (FIG. 7a) 1509 2077 22% 12% ODSB (C) (FIG. 7b) 1759 1294 20% 19% OSSB-FC (FIG. 7c) 597 596 21% 20%
(42) With the OSSB-FC scheme, the phase at P2 is shifted by only 1 mrad with a small contrast decrease of around 1% compared with the measurement at P1. This can be seen in
(43) Gravity Measurement
(44) The laser system based on SSB-C has also been demonstrated to perform a gravity measurement in a Mach-Zehnder atom interferometer, which combines three velocity sensitive Raman pulses. The detuning Δ in
(45) Alternative Implementations
(46) The laser system may also be used to provide an output beam for various other applications in which a tuneable Raman laser output is required, including: Raman laser cooling (Reichel et al, reference 37); Raman atom interferometry (Kasevich & Chu, reference 38); laser cooling by coherent population trapping (CPT) (Esslinger et al, reference 39); CPT-based atomic clocks (Vanier, reference 40); CPT-based magnetometers (Belfi et al, references 41 & 42); laser cooling by electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) (Schmidt-Kaler et al, reference 43); and EIT-based magnetometry (Yudin et al and Fisher et al, references 44 & 45). In some cases (references 37-39), the laser beam may be directed to a magneto-optical trap (MOT) containing an atomic sample with which the laser beam interacts. In other cases, the laser beam may be directed to a chamber to interact with an atomic or ionic vapour contained therein (references 40-45). A common feature is that a laser beam is directed towards a chamber containing an atomic sample with which the laser beam interacts.
(47) Other embodiments are intentionally within the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
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