Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 29, Issue 2, 425(2009)

Influence of the Bandwidth of Feedback Loop in Frequency Stabilization of External-Cavity Diode Laser by Polarization Spectroscopy

Wang Jing*, Yang Baodong, He Jun, Zhao Jiangyan, Zhang Tiancai, and Wang Junmin
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    Based on the experiment of trapping single cesium atoms in magneto-optical trap (MOT), a grating-external-cavity diode laser, which provides the cooling/trapping beams of MOT is locked to cesium 6S1/2 F=4→6P3/2 F′=5 cycling transition by modulation-free polarization spectroscopy. This frequency locking method uses the dispersion-like curve generated from polarization spectroscopy as frequency-discriminating signal. The error signal is feedback to both current modulation port of diode laser and voltage modulation port of piezoelectric transducer (PZT) in grating external cavity. The locking technique of modulation-free polarization spectroscopy can clearly improve the frequency stability compared with conventional saturation absorption spectroscopic technique. The minimum value of Allan variance is σy(τ) = 4.6×10-12 at average time of τ=300 s.

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    Wang Jing, Yang Baodong, He Jun, Zhao Jiangyan, Zhang Tiancai, Wang Junmin. Influence of the Bandwidth of Feedback Loop in Frequency Stabilization of External-Cavity Diode Laser by Polarization Spectroscopy[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2009, 29(2): 425

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    Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

    Received: Mar. 21, 2008

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Feb. 23, 2009

    The Author Email: Jing Wang (jing1031@gmail.com)

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