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A two-frequency acousto-optic modulator driver to improve the beam pointing stability during intensity ramps | | B. Fröhlich
; T. Lahaye
; B. Kaltenhäuser
; H. Kübler
; S. Müller
; T. Koch
; M. Fattori
; T. Pfau
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16 Jan 2007 | | Subject: | Optics; Instrumentation and Detectors | | Abstract: | We report on a scheme to improve the pointing stability of the first order beam diffracted by an acousto-optic modulator (AOM). Due to thermal effects inside the crystal, the angular position of the beam can change by as much as 1 mrad when the radio-frequency power in the AOM is reduced to decrease the first order beam intensity. This is done for example to perform forced evaporative cooling in ultracold atom experiments using far-off-resonant optical traps. We solve this problem by driving the AOM with two radio-frequencies $f_1$ and $f_2$. The power of $f_2$ is adjusted relative to the power of $f_1$ to keep the total power constant. Using this, the beam displacement is decreased by a factor of twenty. The method is simple to implement in existing experimental setups, without any modification of the optics. | | Source: | arXiv, physics/0701183 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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