A microresonator-based etalon for visible light precision radial velocity measurements

Stephanie Leifer; Anatoliy Savchenkov; Abdelkrim El Amili; Charles Beichman; Andrey Matsko; Yu Hung Lai; Stuart Love; Dmitry Strekalov; Christian Schwab; Lute Maleki; Samuel Halverson; Ian Coddington; Mahmood Bagheri

doi:10.1117/12.2562369

A microresonator-based etalon for visible light precision radial velocity measurements

Stephanie Leifer^*, Anatoliy Savchenkov, Abdelkrim El Amili, Charles Beichman, Andrey Matsko, Yu Hung Lai, Stuart Love, Dmitry Strekalov, Christian Schwab, Lute Maleki, Samuel Halverson, Ian Coddington, Mahmood Bagheri

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Abstract

We report on our efforts to develop a whispering gallery mode resonator etalon as a tool for precision radial velocity observations to detect exoplanets. The crystalline MgF₂ etalon will be referenced to a compact fiber laser frequency comb, and will serve as the wavelength calibration source for a stabilized, high resolution, visible band spectrograph. The extreme stability required for the detection and characterization of exo-Earths orbiting solar-type stars will be achieved by employing a composite resonator structure with a compensating material to balance the resonator's coefficients of thermal expansion and thermal refractivity. Progress in modeling the etalon to achieve single mode-like performance, and experiments to demonstrate broad-band (octave-spanning) coupling to a white light source, are described.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII
Editors	Christopher J. Evans, Julia J. Bryant, Kentaro Motohara
Place of Publication	Bellingham, Washington
Publisher	SPIE
Pages	114471L-1-114471L-11
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510636828
ISBN (Print)	9781510636811
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562369
Publication status	Published - 13 Dec 2020
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: 14 Dec 2020 → 22 Dec 2020

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE
Publisher	SPIE
Volume	11447
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	14/12/20 → 22/12/20

Keywords

Etalon
Exoplanet
Precision radial velocity
PRV
Resonator
Wavelength calibration
WGM
Whispering gallery mode

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Leifer, S., Savchenkov, A., El Amili, A., Beichman, C., Matsko, A., Lai, Y. H., Love, S., Strekalov, D., Schwab, C., Maleki, L., Halverson, S., Coddington, I., & Bagheri, M. (2020). A microresonator-based etalon for visible light precision radial velocity measurements. In C. J. Evans, J. J. Bryant, & K. Motohara (Eds.), Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII (pp. 114471L-1-114471L-11). Article 114471L (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 11447). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562369

Leifer, Stephanie ; Savchenkov, Anatoliy ; El Amili, Abdelkrim et al. / A microresonator-based etalon for visible light precision radial velocity measurements. Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII. editor / Christopher J. Evans ; Julia J. Bryant ; Kentaro Motohara. Bellingham, Washington : SPIE, 2020. pp. 114471L-1-114471L-11 (Proceedings of SPIE).

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Leifer S, Savchenkov A, El Amili A, Beichman C, Matsko A, Lai YH et al. A microresonator-based etalon for visible light precision radial velocity measurements. In Evans CJ, Bryant JJ, Motohara K, editors, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII. Bellingham, Washington: SPIE. 2020. p. 114471L-1-114471L-11. 114471L. (Proceedings of SPIE). doi: 10.1117/12.2562369

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