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A highly stable and fully tunable open microcavity platform at cryogenic temperatures

Pallmann, Maximilian ORCID iD icon; Eichhorn, Timon; Benedikter, Julia; Casabone, Bernardo; Hümmer, Thomas; Hunger, David ORCID iD icon

Abstract:

Open-access microcavities are a powerful tool to enhance light-matter interactions for solid-state quantum and nano systems and are key to advance applications in quantum technologies. For this purpose, the cavities should simultaneously meet two conflicting requirements - full tunability to cope with spatial and spectral inhomogeneities of a material, and highest stability under operation in a cryogenic environment to maintain resonance conditions. To tackle this challenge, we have developed a fully-tunable, open-access, fiber-based Fabry-Pérot microcavity platform which can be operated also under increased noise levels in a closed-cycle cryostat. It comprises custom-designed monolithic micro- and nanopositioning elements with up to mm-scale travel range that achieve a passive cavity length stability at low temperature of only 15 pm rms in a closed-cycle cryostat, and 5 pm in a more quiet flow cryostat. This can be further improved by active stabilization, and even higher stability is obtained under direct mechanical contact between the cavity mirrors, yielding 0:8 pm rms during the quiet phase of the closed-cycle cryo cooler. The platform provides operation of cryogenic cavities with high finesse and small mode volume for strong enhancement of light-matter interactions, opening up novel possibilities for experiments with a great variety of quantum and nano materials.


Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics (KSOP)
Physikalisches Institut (PHI)
Publikationstyp Forschungsbericht/Preprint
Publikationsdatum 22.12.2022
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator KITopen-ID: 1000155792
Verlag arxiv
Umfang 7 S.
Schlagwörter Optics (physics.optics), Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Nachgewiesen in arXiv
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