镁离子冷却激光器稳频方法的研究-精密测量物理专业毕业论文.docxVIP

华中科技大学硕士学 位 华 中 科 技 大 学 硕 士 学 位 论 文 II万方数据 II 万方数据 Abstract Time/frequency is one of the fundamental physical constants. In addition, the measurement of length has relationship with the measurement of time. The measurement precision of time has great effect on national defense, communication, scientific and technological development, fundamental research, industrial production and everyday living. Today the development of optical frequency standards has greatly improved the precision of the time measurement, especially Al+ optical clock is the most precise(10-18). The logic ion of Al+ optical clock could be Mg+, so at the first stage we want to trap and cool Mg+. We use 280nm laser to trap and cool Mg+, and for this purpose we want to lock the frequency of 280nm laser. There are four commonly used locking methods in laboratory: Pound-Drever-Hall、 hollow cathode lamp locking、 saturated absorption spectrum locking and wavemeter locking. And this thesis mainly introduces two methods used in our laboratory: saturated absorption locking and wavemeter locking. Saturated absorption stabilization methods is a technique which lock the frequency of our laser to the hyperfine structure of iodine. Since the spectrum is stable, the stability of the laser can reach to 10-11 when locked. And the Doppler- free spectrum is narrow(MHz) which can be used to measure the absolute frequency. As high precision wavemeter can measure wavelength precise ly, it can be used to lock the frequency of laser. Using digital methods and feedback by PID (proportional integrated differential circuits), we can suppress the long term frequency drift of the laser (144MHz/h). We have reduced the long term frequency drift to 120 kHz/h by controlling the environment. We have done some experiments with Mg+ with the help of the above two methods. For example, the resonant frequency of Mg+ is scanned; the absolute frequency of Mg+ is measured; the secular motion frequency of Mg+ is measured and so on. Laser fr