阅读说明：本技术 一种冷原子干涉相位调制型单边带拉曼光产生方法及系统 (Cold atom interference phase modulation type single-sideband Raman light generation method and system ) 是由 王国超 朱凌晓 吕梦洁 杨俊� 颜树华 郭熙业 贾爱爱 王亚宁 李期学 张旭 于 2020-08-13 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明提供了一种冷原子干涉相位调制型单边带拉曼光产生方法及系统,所述系统包括激光器、电光调制器、本振源、窄带宽光纤滤波器、光纤放大器和倍频晶体；激光器产生频率为ω的激光作为激光源输入至电光调制器,本振源对电光调制器施加频率为δ的调制电压,所述电光调制器输出频率为ω±nδ(n＝0,1,2,...)的双边带调频光,双边带调频光输入至与目标频率光匹配的窄带宽光纤滤波器,所述窄带宽光纤滤波器输出目标频率激光,目标频率激光依次输入至光纤放大器和倍频晶体,经过倍频晶体输出冷原子干涉单边带拉曼光。本发明提供的拉曼光产生系统器件结构简单、成本低、集成度高、易于实现,且成熟度高稳定性好,对高精度原子干涉测量的激光系统工程化实现具有重要意义和实用价值。(The invention provides a cold atom interference phase modulation type single-sideband Raman light generation method and a system, wherein the system comprises a laser, an electro-optic modulator, a local vibration source, a narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter, an optical fiber amplifier and a frequency doubling crystal; the laser generates laser with frequency omega, the laser is used as a laser source and input to an electro-optical modulator, the local vibration source applies modulation voltage with frequency delta to the electro-optical modulator, the electro-optical modulator outputs double-sideband frequency modulated light with frequency omega +/-n delta (n is 0,1,2,..) and is input to a narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter matched with target frequency light, the narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter outputs target frequency laser, the target frequency laser is sequentially input to an optical fiber amplifier and a frequency doubling crystal, and cold atom interference single-sideband Raman light is output through the frequency doubling crystal. The Raman light generation system device provided by the invention has the advantages of simple structure, low cost, high integration level, easiness in realization, high maturity, good stability and great significance and practical value in the engineering realization of a laser system for high-precision atomic interference measurement.)

1. A cold atom interference phase modulation type single-sideband Raman light generation system is characterized by comprising a laser, an electro-optical modulator, a local vibration source, a narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter, an optical fiber amplifier and a frequency doubling crystal;

the laser generates laser with frequency omega, the laser is used as a laser source and input to an electro-optical modulator, the local oscillator source applies modulation voltage with frequency delta to the electro-optical modulator, and the electro-optical modulator outputs double-sideband frequency modulation light with frequency omega +/-n delta, wherein n is 0,1, 2.; the double-sideband frequency modulation light is input to a narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter matched with target frequency light, the narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter outputs target frequency laser, and the target frequency laser is sequentially input to an optical fiber amplifier and a frequency doubling crystal and then outputs single-sideband Raman light.

2. The cold-atom-interferometric-phase-modulation-type single-sideband raman light generation system of claim 1, wherein the laser locks the frequency to a highly stable optical frequency reference through a frequency-locking module.

3. A cold-atom interference phase modulation-type single-sideband raman light generating system according to claim 1, wherein said narrow-bandwidth fiber filter comprises an optical circulator, a grating, an input port, a reflective output port and a transmissive output port, said optical circulator being connected to the input port, the transmissive output port and the reflective output port, respectively, said grating being disposed between the optical circulator and the transmissive output port.

4. A cold-atom interference phase modulation-type single sideband raman light generating system according to claim 3, wherein said optical circulator is a multiport non-reciprocal optical device, and incident light can travel only in one direction within the optical circulator.

5. The cold-atom-interferometric-phase-modulation-type single-sideband Raman light generation system of claim 3, wherein the grating is a fiber Bragg grating.

6. The cold-atom interference phase modulation type single-sideband Raman light generation system according to claim 5, wherein the double-sideband modulated light enters the optical circulator through an incident end, and the optical wave signal which does not meet the Bragg condition is transmitted through the fiber Bragg grating and output from a transmission output end; and the optical wave signal meeting the Bragg condition is reflected by the fiber Bragg grating and output from the reflection output end to obtain the target frequency laser.

7. The method for generating single-sideband Raman light by using the cold-atom interference phase modulation type single-sideband Raman light generation system according to any one of claims 1 to 6, comprising the steps of:

raman sideband generation: the laser generates laser with frequency omega, the laser is used as a laser source and input to an electro-optical modulator, the local vibration source applies modulation voltage with frequency delta to the electro-optical modulator, and the electro-optical modulator outputs double-sideband frequency modulation light with frequency omega +/-n delta, wherein n is 0,1, 2.;

and (3) filtering redundant sidebands: inputting the double-sideband frequency-modulated light output by the electro-optical modulator into a narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter matched with target frequency light, filtering out the other sideband light except the target frequency light, and outputting target frequency laser;

frequency doubling: and performing power amplification on the target frequency laser through an optical fiber amplifier, and then performing frequency multiplication through a frequency multiplication crystal, wherein light output after frequency multiplication is single-sideband Raman light.

8. A cold atom interferometer using raman light generated by a cold atom interference phase modulation type single side band raman light generating system according to any one of claims 1 to 6.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of laser frequency conversion, in particular to a cold atom interference phase modulation type single-sideband Raman light generation method and a system thereof.

Background

The atomic interferometer can be constructed by utilizing the wave interference characteristics of atomic substances to carry out precise measurement on physical quantities. The atomic interferometer has extremely high measurement accuracy and sensitivity, has better coherence in space and velocity distribution, and is generally applied to measurement of high-accuracy rotation angular velocity, gravitational acceleration and gravitational gradient and research of fundamental physics such as fine structure constant, equivalence principle, gravitational wave, generalized relativistic theory and the like at present.

In a cold atom interference system based on two-photon stimulated Raman transition, prepared Raman light is required to perform beam splitting, inversion and beam combination interference operation on atoms, and the performance of the Raman light directly determines the precision and the sensitivity of an atom interference measurement result and the reliability and the integration degree of an atom interferometer. At present, a 780nm laser is generally directly used as a seed light source for generating various kinds of control light required by rubidium atom interference, but the development of a 780nm optical device is not mature enough, the threshold energy of the device is low, the device is easy to damage, and the device is expensive; a1560 nm laser is used as a seed source, the 1560nm wave band is in a communication wave band, and the device has the advantages of high technical maturity, low price and high integration level. Currently, there are three main methods for generating raman light, which are optical phase-lock synthesis, optical frequency-shift synthesis, and electro-optical phase modulation. The optical phase-locked synthesis method is based on an optical coherent phase-locked technology, and obtains two beams of coherent Raman light with fixed frequency difference by locking the beat frequency of a master laser and a slave laser and then carrying out spatial synthesis on the master laser and the slave laser; the optical frequency shift synthesis method is to perform multiple frequency shifts on the fundamental laser through an acousto-optic frequency shifter and then perform spatial beam synthesis with the original beam to obtain Raman light. The electro-optic phase modulation method utilizes laser to generate coherent light mixed with zero-order and sideband with equal frequency interval, same polarization and adjustable light intensity through an electro-optic phase modulator, and the zero-order and + 1-order sidebands are used as Raman light, so that the requirements of high coherence and low phase noise of the Raman light are met. Compared with other two methods, the electro-optical phase modulation method has the advantages that the system structure is simple, the integration is easy, the technical maturity is high, the optical fiber is full, the efficiency is high, simultaneously, the generated Raman light has the characteristics of consistent polarization, optical coherence and natural low noise, and the method is the Raman light generation method with the most engineering practical value at present. However, the existing electro-optic phase modulation method has defects and shortcomings, which are shown in that the common electro-optic phase modulation can generate double sidebands at the left side and the right side of the fundamental frequency light, so that a raman sideband effect is brought, and the atomic interference fringe contrast is influenced and phase measurement errors are caused. Although an equivalent single sideband modulation method based on the IQ modulation principle is proposed at present, the problem of bidirectional modulation is only solved, other sideband effects still exist, the sideband suppression effect needs to be further improved, and IQ modulation devices are high in cost, poor in stability and complex in system, difficult to realize long-time stable control, and difficult to meet the actual engineering application requirements of high precision and high stability.

At present, in order to eliminate the sideband effect of the electro-optical phase modulation method, researchers have proposed some methods, mainly including a resonant cavity filtering method, a calcite crystal polarization modulation method, and the like, but all have certain problems. The resonant cavity filtering method utilizes an F-P cavity to filter electro-optically modulated laser, can filter carrier waves by setting a free spectral value of the F-P cavity, and takes a step sideband as a pair of Raman light, but the method has a complex structure, cannot be integrated into an optical fiber device, has the same light intensity of +/-1 step sideband, cannot adjust the power ratio of the Raman light, and is basically difficult to apply to an atomic interference experiment. The calcite crystal polarization modulation method is that the output light of a phase modulator is input into a calcite crystal and passes through the crystal by reflection for multiple times, so that different polarization changes are generated between a carrier wave and a sideband, namely, a 1-order sideband has vertical linear polarization, a +1 sideband has horizontal linear polarization, and the carrier wave has circular polarization, and a light beam passes through the horizontal polarizer, and only the carrier wave and the +1 sideband are left. The method has high requirement on light collimation incidence, needs to pass through calcite crystals for multiple times, has a complex structure, has strict requirement on environmental conditions, and has the problem of low coupling efficiency.

Therefore, the method is realized by taking the technology of generating the Raman light by electro-optic phase modulation, provides a novel method for generating the single-sideband Raman light, which is integrated, low in cost, simple and effective, and has significant significance for rubidium atomic quantum interference precision measurement.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a cold atom interference phase modulation type single-sideband Raman light generation system, which aims to solve the technical problems that Raman light prepared by an electro-optical phase modulation method is easy to generate sideband effect, and further the atomic interference fringe contrast is influenced and phase measurement error is caused.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides a cold atom interference phase modulation type single-sideband Raman light generation system, which comprises a laser, an electro-optical modulator, a local vibration source, a narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter, an optical fiber amplifier and a frequency doubling crystal;

the laser generates laser with frequency omega, the laser is used as a laser source and input to an electro-optical modulator, the local oscillator source applies modulation voltage with frequency delta to the electro-optical modulator, and the electro-optical modulator outputs double-sideband frequency modulation light with frequency omega +/-n delta, wherein n is 0,1, 2.; the double-sideband frequency modulation light is input to a narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter matched with target frequency light, the narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter outputs target frequency laser, and the target frequency laser is sequentially input to an optical fiber amplifier and a frequency doubling crystal and then outputs single-sideband Raman light.

Further, the laser locks the frequency to a high-stability optical frequency reference through a frequency locking module.

Further, the narrow bandwidth fiber filter includes an optical circulator, a grating, an input end, a reflection output end and a transmission output end, the optical circulator is respectively connected with the input end, the transmission output end and the reflection output end, and the grating is arranged between the optical circulator and the transmission output end.

Further, the optical circulator is a multi-port nonreciprocal optical device, and incident light can only propagate in one direction in the optical circulator.

Further, the grating is a fiber bragg grating.

Further, the double-sideband frequency modulation light enters the optical circulator through the incident end, and the optical wave signals which do not accord with the Bragg condition are transmitted through the fiber Bragg grating and output from the transmission output end; and the optical wave signal meeting the Bragg condition is reflected by the fiber Bragg grating and output from the reflection output end to obtain the target frequency laser.

The invention also provides a method for generating the single-sideband Raman light by the cold atom interference phase modulation type single-sideband Raman light generating system, which comprises the following steps:

raman sideband generation: the laser generates laser with frequency omega, the laser is used as a laser source to be input into an electro-optical modulator, meanwhile, modulation voltage with frequency delta is applied to the electro-optical modulator, and the electro-optical modulator outputs double-sideband frequency modulation light with frequency omega +/-n delta, wherein n is 0,1, 2;

and (3) filtering redundant sidebands: inputting the double-sideband frequency-modulated light output by the electro-optical modulator into a narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter matched with target frequency light, filtering out the other sideband light except the target frequency light, and outputting target frequency laser;

frequency doubling: and performing power amplification on the target frequency laser through an optical fiber amplifier, and then performing frequency multiplication through a frequency multiplication crystal, wherein light output after frequency multiplication is single-sideband Raman light.

The invention also provides a cold atom interferometer which adopts the Raman light generated by the cold atom interference phase modulation type single-sideband Raman light generation system.

The invention has the following beneficial effects:

in a mechanism for generating coherent Raman light by using an electro-optical phase modulation method and optical frequency multiplication, a narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter of a communication waveband is used for filtering out unwanted sideband components in the atomic interference process at the rear end of phase modulation, only two target frequency components of fundamental frequency light and adjacent sideband light are reserved, a relatively clean sideband modulation effect is achieved, single-sideband modulated light is obtained, and finally single-sideband target Raman light is obtained through frequency multiplication conversion. In addition, when the Raman light and the cooling light used for cold atom interference are time-division multiplexed, the seed light entering the phase modulator needs to be subjected to frequency hopping and frequency sweeping.

The Raman light generation system provided by the invention has the advantages of simple device structure, low cost, high integration level, easiness in realization, high maturity, good stability and important significance and practical value for the engineering realization of a laser system for high-precision atomic interference measurement.

In addition to the objects, features and advantages described above, other objects, features and advantages of the present invention are also provided. The present invention will be described in further detail below with reference to the drawings.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the invention and not to limit the invention. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a frequency domain model of electro-optic phase modulated light;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a narrow bandwidth fiber filter architecture;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a narrow bandwidth fiber filter spectrum;

fig. 4 is a diagram of a cold atom interference single sideband raman light generation system provided by the present invention.

Detailed Description

Embodiments of the invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings, but the invention can be implemented in many different ways, which are defined and covered by the claims.

The principle of raman light generation is as follows:

the electric field intensity e (t) of the laser light output by the laser light source with time can be expressed as e (t) Ee^iωtAnd E is the amplitude of the electric field intensity, omega is the laser frequency, the laser frequency is input into the electro-optic phase modulator, a modulation signal with the frequency delta is applied to the electro-optic phase modulator, the modulation frequency delta of the electro-optic phase modulator is correspondingly obtained, and the modulation depth beta is obtained. Due to the first-order electro-optic effect of the nonlinear crystal, the frequency-modulated light of the modulated light can be expressed as:

wherein E is₀Is the magnitude of the electric field intensity after passing through the electro-optic phase modulator, J₀(β) is a Bessel function of 0 th order, J_n(beta) is a Bessel function of nth order,for the phase shift after passing the electro-optic modulator, t is the time.

Fig. 1 is a frequency domain model of electro-optic phase modulated light, which can be processed by an electro-optic modulator to obtain a frequency ω ± n δ (n is 0,1,2,..) and an amplitude E₀·J_n(β) a series of output lights. Only the carrier wave (with the frequency of omega) and the positive first-order sideband (with the frequency of omega + delta) of the modulated light are needed for generating the Raman light, and the redundant Raman laser sideband enables the atoms to generate Raman transition and then generates the Raman sideband effect, thereby generating larger influence on the absolute accuracy of the cold atom gravimeterTherefore, the frequency-modulated light output by the electro-optical modulator needs to be input into a narrow-bandwidth fiber filter for optical filtering.

The narrow bandwidth fiber filter is an important device in the present invention, and is a grating with periodically distributed spatial phase formed in the fiber core, and the essence of the grating is to form a narrow band (transmission or reflection) filter or mirror in the fiber core. A narrow bandwidth fiber filter structure is shown in fig. 2 and includes an optical circulator, a grating, an input end, a reflective output end, and a transmissive output end. The optical circulator is respectively connected with the input end, the transmission output end and the reflection output end, and the grating is arranged between the optical circulator and the transmission output end. The optical circulator is a multi-port non-reciprocal optical device, and incident light can only propagate in one direction in the optical circulator. The optical circulator comprises an input end port, a reflection output end port and a transmission output end port, wherein the transmission output end port is connected with the transmission output end through a grating. The grating is a fiber bragg grating (FBG for short). The grating comprises a plurality of reflection points capable of reflecting specific wavelengths, and target signals can be output by accurately matching the distance between the two reflection points. Specifically, the double-sideband frequency modulation light enters the optical circulator from an input end port through an incident end, and a light wave signal which does not meet the Bragg condition is transmitted through the fiber Bragg grating and is output from a transmission output end; and the optical wave signal meeting the Bragg condition is reflected by the fiber Bragg grating and is output from the port of the reflection output end to obtain the target frequency laser. The main parameters of the narrow bandwidth optical fiber filter are as follows: the initial refractive index n, the photoinduced refractive index perturbation value delta n, the grating pitch lambda and the grating region length L.

Fig. 3 is a transmission-reflection graph of a spectral diagram of a narrow bandwidth fiber filter, where the solid line is the reflection curve of the narrow bandwidth fiber filter and the dashed line is the transmission curve of the narrow bandwidth fiber filter. It can be seen that the wavelength range isThe inner laser light is almost totally reflected by the FBG and is not substantially reflected at the rest wavelengths, wherein lambda is FBG reflects the center wavelength, and delta lambda is the full width at half maximum of the reflection curve, namely the corresponding curve bandwidth when the loss is-3 dB. By designing the appropriate center wavelength and bandwidth of the reflection spectrum, as shown in fig. 3, the 0 th order sideband and the +1 th order sideband, i.e., raman 1 and raman 2, in the electro-optical modulator can be centered in the reflection spectrum, and the remaining sidebands can be filtered out.

The FBG reflection center wavelength lambda is determined by the grating pitch lambda, and the two relations are as follows:

λ＝2nΛ

the expressions of the full width at half maximum of the reflection spectrum delta lambda, the FBG photoinduced refractive index perturbation value delta n and the grating region length L are as follows:

by designing parameters such as the initial refractive index n, the photoinduced refractive index perturbation value delta n, the grating pitch lambda, the grating region length L and the like, only the carrier and the positive first-order sideband of the electro-optic modulator are positioned in the FBG reflection spectrum bandwidth, and the rest sidebands are filtered.

The laser with the frequency of omega and omega + delta is obtained after passing through a narrow bandwidth optical fiber filter, then the laser is input into an optical fiber amplifier EDFA for amplification and then frequency multiplication is carried out through a frequency multiplication crystal PPLN, output light with the frequency of 2 omega, 2 omega + delta and 2 (omega + delta) is obtained, and a pair of laser with the frequency of 2 omega, 2 omega + delta is single-sideband Raman light required in the cold atom interference process. Although the sideband light with the frequency of 2 omega +2 delta and the light with the frequency of 2 omega + delta can form a pair of parallel Raman lights, the influence can be basically eliminated and can be ignored by reasonably selecting optical parameters such as the intensity of Raman pulses due to the large detuning of the frequency.

As shown in fig. 4, a cold atom interference phase modulation type single-sideband raman light generation system includes a laser, an electro-optical modulator, a local oscillation source, a narrow bandwidth fiber filter, a fiber amplifier and a frequency doubling crystal;

the laser generates laser with frequency omega, the laser is used as a laser source to be input to the electro-optical modulator, the local oscillator source applies modulation voltage with frequency delta to the electro-optical modulator, the electro-optical modulator outputs double-sideband frequency modulation light with frequency omega +/-n delta (n is 0,1,2,. -), the double-sideband frequency modulation light is input to a narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter matched with target frequency light, the narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter outputs target frequency laser, the target frequency laser is sequentially input to an optical fiber amplifier and a frequency doubling crystal, and single-sideband Raman light is output through the frequency doubling crystal.

Specifically, the target frequency laser includes carrier light with a frequency ω and positive first-order sideband light with a frequency ω + δ;

the single-sideband raman light includes light at frequencies of 2 ω, and 2 ω + δ.

In one embodiment, the laser is frequency locked to a highly stable optical frequency reference by a frequency locking module.

The narrow bandwidth fiber filter includes optical circulator, grating, input, reflection output and transmission output, the optical circulator links to each other with input, transmission output and reflection output respectively, the grating sets up between optical circulator and transmission output.

The optical circulator is a multi-port nonreciprocal optical device, and incident light can only propagate in one direction in the optical circulator. The optical circulator comprises an input end port, a reflection output end port and a transmission output end port, wherein the transmission output end port is connected with the transmission output end through a grating. The grating is a fiber Bragg grating. The grating comprises a plurality of reflection points capable of reflecting specific wavelengths, and target signals can be output by accurately matching the distance between the two reflection points. Specifically, the double-sideband frequency modulation light enters the optical circulator from an input end port through an incident end, and a light wave signal which does not meet the Bragg condition is transmitted through the fiber Bragg grating and is output from a transmission output end; and the optical wave signal meeting the Bragg condition is reflected by the fiber Bragg grating and is output from the port of the reflection output end to obtain the target frequency laser.

The method for generating the single-sideband Raman light by adopting the cold atom interference phase modulation type single-sideband Raman light generating system comprises three steps of generating the Raman sidebands, filtering redundant sidebands and frequency doubling, and specifically comprises the following steps: the laser generates laser light with frequency omega as a laser source to be input to an electro-optical modulator (EOM), the vibration source applies modulation voltage with frequency delta to the electro-optical modulator (EOM), the electro-optical modulator outputs double-sideband frequency-modulated light with frequency omega +/-n delta (n is 0,1, 2. -), and the required target frequencies are output carrier light omega and positive-order sideband light omega + delta. And inputting the double-sideband frequency-modulated light output by the electro-optical modulator into a narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter matched with the target frequency light, and filtering the other sideband light except the carrier light and the positive first-order sideband light, wherein the output light of the narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter is the target frequency laser. And then the target frequency laser is subjected to power amplification through an optical fiber amplifier, frequency multiplication is carried out through a frequency multiplication crystal, and light output after frequency multiplication is single-sideband Raman light.

The invention takes a rubidium element cold atom interferometer as a case, and adopts a laser with the accurate wavelength value of 1560.500nm locked by frequency as a laser source. Since the required raman light interval is 6.834GHz, a sine wave signal with the frequency of 6.834GHz (corresponding to the wavelength of 55pm) is applied to the electro-optical phase modulator, and a series of output lights with the carrier wavelength of 1560.500nm and the wavelength interval of 55pm are obtained. The central wavelength of the narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter is set to be 1560.470nm, the bandwidth is 80pm, only carrier waves and + 1-order sidebands are left after the narrow-bandwidth optical fiber filter passes through, the corresponding wavelengths are 1560.500nm and 1560.445nm, and target output Raman light of 780.250nm and 780.236nm is obtained after frequency doubling.

Compared with other methods for eliminating the sideband effect, the method can be coupled into an optical fiber system, has strong feasibility, simple scheme and high integration, reduces the realization cost, and provides a practical and innovative ingenious solution for eliminating the sideband effect. In addition, by setting the center wavelength and the bandwidth of the optical fiber filter, the frequency hopping requirement can be met, the cooling light required by atomic cooling can be obtained, the frequency of the cooling light obtained after the Raman light is subjected to small frequency shift can still be within the reflection spectrum bandwidth of the optical fiber filter, the multiplexing of an optical path is realized, and the integration level of a laser system is improved.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.