Digital locking of a three-mirror ring cavity

Abhijit G. Kallapur*, Dirk Schutte, Ian R. Petersen, Toby K. Boyson, Elanor Huntington, S. Z. Sayed Hassen, Hongbin Song, Michele Heurs

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Abstract

This paper presents results for digitally locking an experimental optical cavity. Locking an optical cavity refers to the process of matching the resonant frequency of the cavity with the input laser frequency in order to facilitate maximum energy build-up inside the cavity. The cavity used in this paper is a three-mirror ring cavity with a piezo actuator mounted on one of the mirrors, which is digitally controlled to hold the cavity in lock. An integral LQG controller is designed and digitally implemented in order to achieve cavity lock and the closed-loop step response is presented. This is compared with the closed-loop step response using a digital proportional-integral controller for the three-mirror cavity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, CCA 2012
Pages794-799
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, CCA 2012 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
Duration: 3 Oct 20125 Oct 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications

Conference

Conference2012 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, CCA 2012
Country/TerritoryCroatia
CityDubrovnik
Period3/10/125/10/12

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