Boulder Precision Electro-optics — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: We construct a frequency stabilized laser which will generate 10 GHz microwaves with Phase
Boulder Precision Electro-optics — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $149,447
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Solicitation
- 2012.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CO
- Period
- 2012-06-21 → 2013-10-31
Description
We construct a frequency stabilized laser which will generate 10 GHz microwaves with Phase noise -100 dBC/Hz at 1 Hz, or equivalently, an optical frequency with an Allan Deviation of 8e-16 and a drift rate of<1 Hz/s. This is achieved with a silicon reference cavity (for short-term stability) which is disciplined at long times with a lock to a saturated absorption feature in an acetylene line. The molecular reference will discipline the drift of the locked laser to give the required phase noise at 1 Hz in a wide range of environments.