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Magneto-optical polarization rotation in a ladder-type atomic system for tunable offset locking

Atomic Physics 2016-04-26 v3 Optics

Abstract

We demonstrate an easily tunable locking scheme for stabilizing frequency-sum of two lasers on a two-photon ladder transition based on polarization rotation in warm rubidium vapors induced by magnetic field and circularly polarized drive field. Unprecedented tunability of the two-photon offset frequency is due to strong splitting and shifting of magnetic states in external field. In our experimental setup we achieve two-photon detuning of up to 700 MHz.

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@article{arxiv.1602.00616,
  title  = {Magneto-optical polarization rotation in a ladder-type atomic system for tunable offset locking},
  author = {Michał Parniak and Adam Leszczyński and Wojciech Wasilewski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00616},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages, 6 figures

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