HXHao Xu

Hao Xu

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Latest Publications

  • Open Access

    Yoctosecond Timing Jitter Sensitivity in Tightly Synchronized Mode-Locked Ti:Sapphire Lasers

    by Hao Xu, Haitao Wu, Dong Hou, Haoyuan Lu, Zhaolong Li, Jianye Zhao

    Higher sensitivity in timing jitter measurement has great importance in studies related to precise measurements. Timing jitter noise floors contribute one of the main parts in existing measurements. In this article, a phase error signal is obtained by superposition of outputs of two optical heterodyne discrimination apparatus to suppress the noise floor. Excess phase noise of the electrical amplifier is avoided. We demonstrate 2.6 × 10−14 fs2/Hz (~160 ys/√Hz) timing jitter noise floor between two identical 99 MHz repetition-rate mode-locked Ti:sapphire lasers after their repetition rates are tightly synchronized. The performance is extensible to reach an integrated timing jitter resolution of one attosecond.


  • Open Access

    Optical Frequency Comb-Based Direct Two-Photon Cooling for Cold Atom Clock

    by Lin Dan, Hao Xu, Ping Guo, Jianye Zhao

    The performance of the cold atom clock based on coherent population trapping (CPT) improved when the temperature decreased. In order to obtain a lower temperature in the cold atom clock, we proposed a cooling scheme in this paper that employs direct two-photon transition using optical frequency combs (OFCs). Two trains of time-delayed pulses from opposite directions were utilized to interact with atoms. It was found that the temperature of the cold atoms reached the minimum if the pulse area was π and the time delay between the absorption pulse and the stimulated emission pulse was in the range from 0.7τ to τ. In this paper, it was confirmed that the proposed cooling process allowed for faster and more efficient momentum exchange between light and atoms, and the proposed cooling process could be applied to the atoms or molecules that could not be cooled to desired temperature through the single-photon cooling process. The 87Rb cooling, together with the CPT interrogating scheme using OFCs reduced the ratio value of linewidth/contrast, and the frequency stability of the cold atom clock hence improved by more than six times as per our calculation.

  • Open Access

    High Vacuum Packaging of MEMS Devices Containing Heterogeneous Discrete Components

    by Ping Guo, Hongling Meng, Lin Dan, Hao Xu, Jianye Zhao

    Vacuum packaging of Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) devices is a hot topic for its advantages of improving performance and reducing power consumption. In this paper, the physics package of a chip scale atomic clock (CSAC), as a typical kind of MEMS device, is performed by vacuum packaging based on a systematic method proposed by us. The whole process, including low outgassing and thermal stable materials selection, prebaking for desorption, getter firing for absorption and solder reflow for vacuum sealing is introduced thoroughly. The thermogravimetric analysis or thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) is used to analyze the thermal stability and desorption of materials. The leak rate of physics packages is measured to be less than 4 × 10−10 Pa·m3/s by helium leak detection. The residual gas pressure and composition in physics packages are analyzed after vacuum packaging. The results show a high vacuum ~0.1 Pa in the physics package. The frequency stability is improved from 4.68 × 10−11 to 1.07 × 10−11 @40,000 s. The presented method for high vacuum packaging is also applicable to other MEMS devices.