Chinese Optics Letters, 2013, 11 (12): 121402, Published Online: Dec. 6, 2013
Development of a frequency-stabilized 555.8-nm laser Download: 691次
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Abstract
Experiments on developing a frequency-stabilized 555.8-nm laser are presented. The 555.8-nm laser is obtained by frequency doubling of a 1111.6-nm diode laser through single-passing a periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide. The 555.8-nm laser is then locked to a stable high-finesse Fabry–Perot (FP) cavity by the Pound–Drever–Hall (PDH) technique. The finesse of the cavity is measured by the heterodyne cavity ring-down spectroscopy technique. The linewidth of the 555.8-nm laser is investigated. After the laser is locked, the laser line width is reduced to about 3 kHz. This frequency-stabilized 555.8-nm laser is used in experiments on the laser cooling and trapping of ytterbium atoms to develop an ytterbium optical clock.
Min Zhou, Liangyu Huang, Xinye Xu. Development of a frequency-stabilized 555.8-nm laser[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2013, 11(12): 121402.