Actively frequency-stabilized external cavity diode laser with a linewidth of 2.9聽kHz

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• 作者：Ismail Bayrakli
• 关键词：External cavity laser ; Frequency stabilization ; Tunable laser
• 刊名：Optical and Quantum Electronics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：48
• 期：1
• 全文大小：996 KB
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• 作者单位：Ismail Bayrakli (1)
  
  1. Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey
  
• 刊物主题：Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices; Electrical Engineering; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Computer Communication Networks;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1572-817X

文摘

A single-mode frequency-stabilized broadly-tunable narrow-linewidth external cavity diode laser (ECL) is demonstrated. A broadly coarse wavelength tuning range of 135 nm for the spectral range between 1250 and 1385 nm is achieved by rotating the diffraction grating forming a Littrow-type external-cavity configuration. The laser is locked to a Fabry鈥揚erot interferometer with a free spectral range of 1.5 GHz. The full width at half maximum is narrowed from 450 to 2.9 kHz by the laser frequency locking. Our system is suitable for applications or experiments requiring a frequency-stabilized ECL with narrow linewidth, such as coherent population trapping, precision spectroscopy, optical clocks, atom/ion cooling, Bose鈥揈instein condensates, atom interferometry, and quantum memory. Keywords External cavity laser Frequency stabilization Tunable laser