Laser ranging and interferometry are essential technologies allowing for many astounding new spacebased missions such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to measure gravitational radiation emitted from distant super massive black hole mergers or distributed aperture telescopes with unprecedented angular resolution in the NIR or visible regime. The requirements on laser frequency noise depend on the residual motion and the distances between the spacecraft forming the interferometer. The intrinsic frequency stability of commercial lasers is several orders of magnitude above these requirements. Therefore, it is necessary for lasers to be stabilized to an ultrastable frequency reference so that they can be used to sense and control distances between spacecraft. Various optical frequency references and frequency stabilization schemes are considered and investigated for the applicability and usefulness for space-based interferometry missions.


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    Title :

    Laser Frequency Stabilization


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    78th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the APS ; 2011 ; Roanoke, VA, United States


    Publication date :

    2011-10-19


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


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