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  • Prototype of an ultra-stabl...
    Argence, B; Prevost, E; Lévèque, T; Le Goff, R; Bize, S; Lemonde, P; Santarelli, G

    Optics express, 2012-Nov-05, 2012-11-05, 20121105, Letnik: 20, Številka: 23
    Journal Article

    We report the main features and performances of a prototype of an ultra-stable cavity designed and realized by industry for space applications with the aim of space missions. The cavity is a 100 mm long cylinder rigidly held at its midplane by a engineered mechanical interface providing an efficient decoupling from thermal and vibration perturbations. Intensive finite element modeling was performed in order to optimize thermal and vibration sensitivities while getting a high fundamental resonance frequency. The system was designed to be transportable, acceleration tolerant (up to several g) and temperature range compliant -33°C ; 73°C. Thermal isolation is ensured by gold coated Aluminum shields inside a stainless steel enclosure for vacuum. The axial vibration sensitivity was evaluated at (4 ± 0.5) × 10(-11)/(m.s(-2)), while the transverse one is < 1 × 10(-11)/(m.s(-2)). The fractional frequency instability is </~ 1×10(-15) from 0.1 to a few seconds and reaches 5-6×10(-16) at 1s.