A compact iodine-laser operating at 531 nm with stability at the 10$^{-12}$ level and using a coin-sized laser module
Optics
2016-03-25 v1 Atomic Physics
Abstract
We demonstrate a compact iodine-stabilized laser operating at 531 nm using a coin-sized light source consisting of a 1062-nm distributed-feedback diode laser and a frequency-doubling element. A hyperfine transition of molecular iodine is observed using the light source with saturated absorption spectroscopy. The light source is frequency stabilized to the observed iodine transition and achieves frequency stability at the 10 level. The absolute frequency of the compact laser stabilized to the hyperfine component of the transition is determined as kHz with a relative uncertainty of . The iodine-stabilized laser can be used for various applications including interferometric measurements.
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@article{arxiv.1506.06323,
title = {A compact iodine-laser operating at 531 nm with stability at the 10$^{-12}$ level and using a coin-sized laser module},
author = {Takumi Kobayashi and Daisuke Akamatsu and Kazumoto Hosaka and Hajime Inaba and Sho Okubo and Takehiko Tanabe and Masami Yasuda and Atsushi Onae and Feng-Lei Hong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.06323},
year = {2016}
}