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Simultaneous two-photon resonant optical laser locking (STROLLing) in the hyperfine Paschen--Back regime

Atomic Physics 2018-08-24 v3 Optics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We demonstrate a technique to lock simultaneously two laser frequencies to each step of a two-photon transition in the presence of a magnetic field sufficiently large to gain access to the hyperfine Paschen-Back regime. A ladder configuration with the 5S1/2_{1/2}, 5P3/2_{3/2} and 5D5/2_{5/2} terms in a thermal vapour of 87^{87}Rb atoms is used. The two lasers remain locked for more than 24 hours. For the sum of the laser frequencies, which represents the stability of the two-photon lock, we measure a frequency instability of less than the Rb D2_2 natural linewidth of 6 MHz for nearly all measured time scales

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@article{arxiv.1807.00853,
  title  = {Simultaneous two-photon resonant optical laser locking (STROLLing) in the hyperfine Paschen--Back regime},
  author = {Renju S. Mathew and Francisco Ponciano-Ojeda and James Keaveney and Daniel J. Whiting and Ifan G. Hughes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.00853},
  year   = {2018}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures

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