Demonstration of a tunable-bandwidth white-light interferometer using anomalous dispersion in atomic vapor

作者:Pati G S*; Salit M; Salit K; Shahriar M S
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2007, 99(13): 133601.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.133601

摘要

Recently, the design of a white-light cavity has been proposed using negative dispersion in an intracavity medium to make the cavity resonate over a large range of frequencies and still maintain a high cavity buildup. This Letter presents the first demonstration of this effect in a free-space cavity. The negative dispersion of the intracavity medium is caused by bifrequency Raman gain in an atomic vapor cell. A significantly broad cavity response over a bandwidth greater than 20 MHz has been observed. A key application of this device would be in enhancing the sensitivity-bandwidth product of the next generation gravitational wave detectors that make use of the so-called signal-recycling mirror.