Tuan Banh Quoc et al 2009 Meas. Sci. Technol. 20 125302 doi:10.1088/0957-0233/20/12/125302
Tuan Banh Quoc, Masashi Ishige, Yuria Ohkubo and Masato Aketagawa1
Show affiliationsIn the previous work (Ishige et al 2009 Meas. Sci. Technol. 20 084019), we presented a method of measuring the relative air-refractive-index fluctuation (Δnair) from the laser frequency shift with the measurement uncertainty of order 10−8 using a phase modulation homodyne interferometer (Basile et al 1991 Metrologia 28 455), which was supported by an ultralow thermal expansion material (ULTEM) and an external cavity laser diode (ECLD). In this paper, an improvement in the uncertainty of the Δnair measurement is presented. The improvement method is based on a Fabry–Perot cavity constructed on the ULTEM, which has a thermal expansion coefficient of 2 × 10−8 K−1 and an ECLD. The Pound–Drever–Hall method (Drever et al 1983 Appl. Phys. B 31 97) is also used to control the ECLD frequency to track the resonance of the cavity. Δnair can be derived from the ECLD frequency shift. The estimated measurement uncertainty of Δnair for a short time (~150 s) in the experiment is of order 2.5 × 10−9 or less.
81.16.-c Methods of nanofabrication and processing
65.40.De Thermal expansion; thermomechanical effects
89.20.Bb Industrial and technological research and development
Issue 12 (December 2009)
Received 1 July 2009, in final form 25 September 2009
Published 29 October 2009
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