Active disturbance rejection control of temperature for ultrastable optical cavities

IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2013 Feb;60(2):273-80. doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2013.2563.

Abstract

This paper describes the application of a novel active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) to the stabilization of the temperature of two ultra-stable Fabry-Perot cavities. The cavities are 10 cm long and entirely made of ultralow- expansion glass. The control is based on a linear extended state observer that estimates and compensates the disturbance in the system in real time. The resulting control is inherently robust and easy to tune. A digital implementation of ADRC gives a temperature instability of 200 μK at one day of integration time.