| Zugriffsnummer | 55824 |
| Dokumenttyp | Repository E-Print |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Titel | Lunar Silicon Cavity |
| Autor(in); Institution |
Ye, Jun; JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Hu, Zoey Z.; JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Lewis, Ben; JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Zhang, Wei; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA and Caltech, USA
Ni, Yiqi; Lunetronic Inc. San Francisco, California, USA
Struck, Julian; Lunetronic Inc. San Francisco, California, USA
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| Quelle/Jahr | arXiv:2602.06352 [quant-ph]:(2026), 1 - 8 |
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| Verlag | USA: Cornell University |
| Zusammenfassung | The Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are among the coldest places in the Solar System and are expected to become key landing sites for upcoming international space agency missions. Their proximity to peaks of perpetual solar power and potential resource richness makes them prime candidates for lunar exploration and future Moon bases. Here we propose to deploy a passive, ultrastable optical resonator in these regions that will enable laser systems with unprecedented phase-coherence. The unique physical environment of lunar PSRs greatly benefits the construction of a cryogenic monolithic silicon cavity that exhibits low 10−18 thermal noise-limited stability and coherence time exceeding 1 minute, more than a decade better than the current best terrestrial system. Such a stable laser will form a basic quantum technology infrastructure in space to serve many applications, including establishing a lunar time standard, building long-baseline optical interferometry, distribution of stable optical signals across networks of satellites, testing general relativity and gravitational physics, and forming the backbone for space-based quantum networks. |
| Kostenfreier Zugang | Open Access Green |
| Rechteinformation | arXiv.org - Non-exclusive license to distribute |
| Forschungsprojekt | The work is supported by NIST, NSF, VBFF, the Moore/Simons Foundation, and NASA/JPL’s Strategic University Research Partnerships (SURP) program. F.R. and U.S. acknowledge support from Germany’s Excellence Strategy EXC-2123 QuantumFrontiers (Project No. 390837967). |
| Förderinformationen (1) |
Förderername: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Förderer ID: 0000 0001 2096 9829 Förderer ID Typ: ISNI Förderprogramm: Germany’s Excellence Strategy EXC-2123 QuantumFrontiers Förderungsnummer: Project No. 390837967 |