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Sub-hertz frequency stabilization of a commercial diode laser

Optics 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

We report ultra-stable locking of a commercially available extended cavity diode laser to a vibration-insensitive high finesse Fabry-Perot cavity. A servo bandwidth of 2 MHz is demonstrated. The absolute stability of the diode laser after locking is measured with a three-cornered-hat method. The resulting Allan deviation reaches a level of 2.95×10152.95\times10^{-15} at 1 s, corresponding to only 0.93 Hz linewidth, even without vibration isolation of the reference cavity.

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@article{arxiv.0904.4056,
  title  = {Sub-hertz frequency stabilization of a commercial diode laser},
  author = {Y. N. Zhao and J. Zhang and J. Stuhler and G. Schuricht and F. Lison and Z. H. Lu and L. J. Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.4056},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, 3 figures