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We report on a design of a compact laser system composed of an extended cavity diode laser with high passive stability and a pre-filter Fabri-Perot cavity. The laser is frequency stabilized relative to the cavity using a serrodyne technique…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-20 Emil Kirilov , Manfred J. Mark , Maximilian Segl , Hanns-Christoph Nägerl

Narrow-linewidth lasers are vital for a broad range of scientific and technological applications, including atomic clocks and precision sensing. Achieving high frequency stability is often as critical as ensuring scalability, portability,…

We explore the potential of direct spectroscopy of ultra-narrow optical transitions of atoms localized in an optical cavity. In contrast to stabilization against a reference cavity, which is the approach currently used for the most highly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. J. Martin , D. Meiser , J. W. Thomsen , Jun Ye , M. J. Holland

We have implemented a simple and cost-effective digital system for long-term frequency stabilisation and locking to an arbitrary wavelength of the single-frequency ring CW Ti:Sapphire laser. This system is built around two confocal…

Simultaneous laser locking of IR and UV lasers to a visible stabilized reference laser is demonstrated via a Fabry-Perot cavity. LabVIEW is used to analyze the input and an internal PID algorithm converts the Fabry-Perot signal to an analog…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-03 J. M. Kwolek , J. E. Wells , D. S. Goodman , W. W. Smith

Injection locking of diode lasers is commonly used to amplify low power laser light, but is extremely sensitive to perturbations in the laser current and temperature. To counter such perturbations, active stabilization is often applied to…

An extended cavity diode laser operating in the Littrow configuration emitting near 657 nm is stabilized via its injection current to a reference cavity with a finesse of more than 10^5 and a corresponding resonance linewidth of 14 kHz. The…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 Adrien Schoof , Jan Gruenert , Stephan Ritter , Andreas Hemmerich

We present a scheme for stabilizing multiple lasers at wavelengths between 795 and 866 nm to the same atomic reference line. A reference laser at 852 nm is stabilized to the Cs D2 line using a Doppler-free frequency modulation technique.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Rohde , M. Almendros , C. Schuck , J. Huwer , M. Hennrich , J. Eschner

Frequency-stabilized mid-infrared lasers are valuable tools for precision molecular spectroscopy. However, their implementation remains limited by complicated stabilization schemes. Here we achieve optical self-locking of a quantum cascade…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-29 Gang Zhao , Jianfei Tian , Joseph T. Hodges , Adam J. Fleisher

We present an external cavity diode laser setup using two identical, commercially available interference filters operated in the blue wavelength range around 450 nm. The combination of the two filters decreases the transmission width, while…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-10 Alexander Martin , Patrick Baus , Gerhard Birkl

We developed a laser system for the spectroscopy of the clock transition in ytterbium (Yb) atoms at 578 nm based on an interference-filter stabilized external-cavity diode laser (IFDL) emitting at 1156 nm. Owing to the improved…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Yoshihiro Takata , Shuta Nakajima , Jun Kobayashi , Koki Ono , Yoshiki Amano , Yoshiro Takahashi

We report the frequency noise suppression of a 674nm diode laser by phase-locking it to a 1560nm cavity-stabilized laser, using a commercial optical frequency comb. By phase-locking the frequency comb to the narrow reference at telecom…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Lee Peleg , Nitzan Akerman , Tom Manovitz , Meir Alon , Roee Ozeri

The interrogation of an ultra-narrow clock transition of a single trapped ion for optical frequency metrology requires a laser stabilized to a couple of Hz per second with a linewidth of the same order of magnitude. Today, lasers in the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-14 Didier Guyomarc'H , Gaëtan Hagel , Cédric Zumsteg , Martina Knoop

Narrow-linewidth lasers with absolute frequency anchoring are essential for precision metrology, coherent sensing, and emerging quantum technologies beyond laboratory environments. Optical cavities and interferometers provide exceptional…

Optical injection locking of the repetition frequency of a quantum cascade laser frequency comb is demonstrated using an intensity modulated near-infrared light at 1.55 $\mu$m illuminating the front facet of the laser. Compared to the…

We present a painless, almost-free upgrade to present extended cavity diode lasers (ECDLs), which improves the long term mode-hop free performance by stabilizing the resonance of the internal cavity to the external cavity. This…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sheng-wey Chiow , Quan Long , Christoph Vo , Holger Mueller , Steven Chu

Hybrid integrated diode lasers based on combining semiconductor optical amplifiers with low-loss Si3N4-based feedback circuits enable great laser performance for advanced photonic circuits. In particular, using high-Q Si3N4 ring resonators…

We present a novel and simple method of stabilizing the laser phase and frequency by polarization spectroscopy of an atomic vapor. In analogy to the Pound-Drever-Hall method, which uses a cavity as a memory of the laser phase, this method…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 Yoshio Torii , Hideyasu Tashiro , Nozomi Ohtsubo , Takatoshi Aoki

Optical frequency transfer provides the means for high-fidelity frequency transfer across thousands of kilometers. A critical step in the further developing optical frequency transfer is its capability to transfer a high spectral purity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-25 Liang Hu , Xueyang Tian , Long Wang , Guiling Wu , Jianping Chen

We describe frequency stabilization of a laser at 707.202 nm wavelength using FM spectroscopy in a hollow cathode lamp. The laser is stabilized to the $^{88}$Sr metastable $^3\mathrm{P}_2$ to $^3\mathrm{S}_1$ optical transition. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Matthew A. Norcia , James K. Thompson