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1 Lasers or Advanced Intererometers Benno Willke Aspen Meeting Aspen CO, February 2004 G Z

2 Requirements - Topology Sagnac: broadband source to reduce scattered light noise power control recycled Michelson: coherence control power control spatial control squeezed light IFOs power control dierent wavelength Prestabilized Laser System (PSL)

3 Design Requirements stability / reliability sot ailure mode easy to maintain / rare maintenance interval good eiciency good stationarity / low glitch rate high bandwidth / large range actuators

4 Laser Design common concept: laser diode pumped solid state lasers transer requency stability o low power master laser to high power stage Maser Laser Power Ampliier (MOPA) injection locked oscillator dierent power stage concepts: rods zig-zag slabs ibers thin disc lasers / active mirror laser

5 Nd:YAG Master-Laser NPRO (non-planar ring oscillator) output power: 800mW requency noise: [ 10kHz/ ] Hz/sqrt(Hz) power noise: 10-6 /sqrt(hz)

6 High Power Stage main problem: thermal design stress racture thermal lensing spatial proile bireringence with tangential and radial principle axis solutions reduce deposited heat Yb:YAG, high eiciency propagate beam perpendicular to temperature gradient zig-zag, thin disc lasers increase interaction length iber lasers compensate bireringence

7 Face-pumping - Edge-pumping zig-zag slab Pumping Cooling zig-zag plane Facepumping Edgepumping Pumping Cooling zig-zag plane Stanord High Power Laser Lab Adelaide University ity

8 End pumped slab geometry undoped end 808nm Pump signal IN 1.51cm 3.33cm 1.51cm undoped end 0.6% Nd:YAG signal OUT 808nm Pump 1.1mm X 0.9mm Stanord High Power Laser Lab

9 Stanord High Power Concept 10W LIGO MOPA System ISOL ATOR Mode-matching optics 20 W Ampliier TO PRE MODE CLEANER Lightwave Electronics 2-pass End Pumped Slab #2 Pump Power = 430 W Expected TEM 00 Output Power = 160W Pump Power = 130 Output TEM 00 Power = 50 W 2-pass End Pumped Slab #1 Mode-matching optics

10 End Pumped Rods Nd:YAG - GEO600 Laser (14W) Nd:YVO 4 - Virgo Laser (20W) Laser Zentrum Hannover

11 20% OC % OC Q R 2 iber bundle 10 X30W Q Rrelayop tics iber bundle 10 X30W relayop tics HR HR B rewster Plate B rewster Plate 54 mlas erod wit htwou ndoped endca ps 54 mlas erod wit htwou ndoped endca ps LZH High Power Concept QR output BP rom Master QR HR@1064 HT@808 2

12 Fiber Lasers Pump light A ctive iber Laser radiation HR-m irror Coupling optics Outcoupler Collimator Laser radiation Pump light Outer ladding Active core Inner cladding = pump core courtesy H. Zellmer

13 Fiber Laser Result o Jena Group NPRO Backscattered signal Isolator 9.4 m Yb-doped LMA-iber Dichr. mirror Fiber coupled laser diode Input-output diagram To experiment Output power [W] Backscattered signal [a.u.] Output power [W] 20 Opt. eiciency = 70% Launched power [W] Yb-doped LMA-Fiber Core: = 28.5 µm, NA = 0.06 MFD 23 µm Doping. 700 ppm (mol) Yb 2 O 3 Pumpc.: = 400 µm, NA = 0.38, D-Form Seed: 800 mw Diraction limited (M 2 = 1.1) Polarization 82% (10:1)

14 Modeling/Overview pump light distribution ray tracing analytical approximation experimental data heat generation gain wave propagation through inhomogenous medium Finite Element Method or calculating temperature distribution mechanical stress deormation cooling calculation o optical properties inite dierencing split step ourier approach k-vector thermal lens stress-induced bireringence

15 Advanced LIGO Laser Requirements Power / Beamproile: 165W in gausian TEM 00 mode less than 5W in non- TEM 00 modes Drit: 1% power drit over 24hr. 2% pointing drit Control: tidal requency acuator +/- 50 MHz, time constant < 30min power actuator 10kHz BW, +/-1% range requency actuatot BW:<20 o lag at 100kHz, range: DC-1Hz: 1MHz, 1Hz-100kHz: 10kHz

16 Injection Locked Oscillators - Hannover QR output NPRO FI EOM BP FI HR@1064 HT@808 QR 2 YAG / Nd:YAG / YAG 3x 7x40x7 modemaching optics BP YAG / Nd:YAG 3x2x6 High Power Slave 20 W Master key elements: undoped bonded end-caps bireringence compensation pumplight homogenization

17 Prestabilized Laser PSL requency stability: stabilize master laser to rigid or suspended-mirror cavity power stability: eed-back to pump source o high power stage passive iltering at r spatial proile passiver modecleaning active mode compesation

18 requency noise requirement

19 intensity noise requirement

20 Adv LIGO - PSL optical layout high power ring laser 200W GEO typ ring laser 15W NPRO 1W spatial ilter resonator (PMC) requency reerence resonator AOM

21 PSL stabilization scheme intensity stabilization outer loop injection locking intensity stabilization inner loop PMC loop requency stabilization inner loop requency stabilization outer loop

22 Power Noise Reduction

23 High Power Slave 87 W output power linear polarized single transverse mode M 2 x,y ~ 1,2 PD PD λ/2 FI CCD PD PMC Modemaching PD Output beam λ/4 λ/2 λ/2 MISER EOM FI

24 Relock Time Piezo Ramp: Master 1,3 Hz (770ms) Slave 2.5 Hz (400ms) Slave 12 W Master -1 PD Signal [V] ,4-0,3-0,2-0,1 0,0 0,1 0,2 0,3 0,4 t [s] relock time < 500 ms aster relock possible depending on piezo ramp

25 Bireringence Compensation

26 20% OC % OC Q R 2 iber bundle 10 X30W Q Rrelayop tics iber bundle 10 X30W relayop tics HR HR B rewster Plate B rewster Plate 54 mlas erod wit htwou ndoped endca ps 54 mlas erod wit htwou ndoped endca ps End-Pumped Rods QR output BP rom Master QR HR@1064 HT@808 2

27 Summary dierent high power stages: - end-pumped slabs - end-pumped rods - iber ampliier dierent topologies: - MOPA - injection locking Advanced LIGO pre-stabilized laser system status o laser development possible stabilization schemes

28 high power stage status Feb no re-alignment 40A linear polarized with bireringence compensation output power [W] Diode current

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