Fiber laser development for LISA

Numata, Kenji; Chen, Jeffrey R.; Camp, J. B.

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/228/1/012043

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“…The suitability of a commercial Yb-doped distributed feedback (DFB) fiber laser and its amplifier system emitting 1 W of power for the LISA mission has been proposed [19,20]. Following that, a fiber ring laser that has a comparable free-running frequency noise and a smaller RIN, compared to a Nd:YAG NPRO laser at a low frequency band, was developed for the LISA mission [21]. This fiber ring laser can achieve a faster frequency tuning (up to 10 MHz of bandwidth) than commercial DFB or distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) lasers by using an intracavity phase modulator [22].…”

Section: Space-qualified Lasersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ultraprecision intersatellite laser interferometry

Min

Luo

Liang

et al. 2020

Int. J. Extrem. Manuf.

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Precision measurement tools are compulsory to reduce measurement errors or machining errors in the processes of calibration and manufacturing. The laser interferometer is one of the most important measurement tools invented in the 20th century. Today, it is commonly used in ultraprecision machining and manufacturing, ultraprecision positioning control, and many noncontact optical sensing technologies. So far, the state-of-the-art laser interferometers are the ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, e.g. the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). The LIGO has reached the measurement quantum limit, and some quantum technologies with squeezed light are currently being tested in order to further decompress the noise level. In this paper, we focus on the laser interferometry developed for space-based gravitational-wave detection. The basic working principle and the current status of the key technologies of intersatellite laser interferometry are introduced and discussed in detail. The launch and operation of these large-scale, gravitational-wave detectors based on space-based laser interferometry is proposed for the 2030s.

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Section: Space-qualified Lasersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ultraprecision intersatellite laser interferometry

Min

Luo

Liang

et al. 2020

Int. J. Extrem. Manuf.

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“…It appears that our fiber ring laser is promising for space applications where robustness of fiber optics is desirable. [23] We are also developing a semiconductor oscillator [24] fiber amplifier master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) approach for earth gravity field mapping.…”

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Fiber lasers and amplifiers for space-based science and exploration

Krainak

Stephen

et al. 2012

SPIE Proceedings

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We present current and near-term uses of high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers for NASA science and spacecraft applications. Fiber lasers and amplifiers offer numerous advantages for the deployment of instruments on exploration and science remote sensing satellites. Ground-based and airborne systems provide an evolutionary path to space and a means for calibration and verification of space-borne systems. NASA fiber-laser-based instruments include laser sounders and lidars for measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide, oxygen, water vapor and methane and a pulsed or pseudo-noise (PN) code laser ranging system in the near infrared (NIR) wavelength band. The associated fiber transmitters include high-power erbium, ytterbium, and neodymium systems and a fiber laser pumped optical parametric oscillator. We discuss recent experimental progress on these systems and instrument prototypes for ongoing development efforts.x low susceptibility to optical misalignment and contamination (fusion splices); x strong leverage from the laser and telecommunications industries;x high-reliability pump laser diodes [leveraged from telecommunications]; anthony.w.yu@nasa.gov; phone 1(

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“…The current baseline design for the LISA laser is a master-oscillator power-amplified (MOPA) architecture. The master oscillator, in the form of a non-planar ring oscillator (NPRO) such as the one that will fly on LPF or a fiber laser [7], produces a low-power beam which can be frequency tuned. Light from the master laser is modulated in a waveguide phase modulator and used to seed a fiber amplifier which produces the final output power.…”

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LISA long-arm interferometry

Thorpe

2010

Class. Quantum Grav.

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Abstract.The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe gravitational radiation in the milliHertz band by measuring picometer-level fluctuations in the distance between drag-free proof masses over baselines of approximately 5 × 10 9 m. The measurement over each baseline will be divided into three parts: two 'short-arm' measurements between the proof masses and a fiducial point on their respective spacecraft, and a 'long-arm' measurement between fiducial points on separate spacecraft. This work focuses on the technical challenges associated with these longarm measurements and the techniques that have been developed to overcome them.

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Fiber laser development for LISA

Cited by 4 publications

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Ultraprecision intersatellite laser interferometry

Ultraprecision intersatellite laser interferometry

Fiber lasers and amplifiers for space-based science and exploration

LISA long-arm interferometry

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