Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 36, Issue 7, 1848(2009)

All-Solid-State Narrow Linewidth Sodium Guide Star Laser

Lu Yanhua*, Liu Dong, Zhang Lei, Ma Yi, Tang Chun, and Wang Weimin
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    A laser diode-pumped all-solid-state narrow linewidth sodium guide star laser was developed. The repetition rate was 400 Hz and the average power was 1.0 W. Two acousto-optic (AO) Q-swithed lasers of 1064 nm and 1319 nm were used as basic-frequency lasers ,and then 589 nm sodium guide star laser was generated through a extra-cavity sum-frequency generation (SFG) lithium triborate (LBO) crystal. The efficiency of sum-frequency generation was about 20%. Each of the basic frequency lasers was adopted well-designed etalons to narrow the linewidth. The linewidth of the 589 nm laser was controlled to about 1.8 GHz. The central wavelength was locked to 589.159 nm(±1 pm) by tuning the temperature and angle of the etalons. In the end, the sodium guide star laser’s spectra was exactly matched to the D2 line of the sodium atoms.

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    Lu Yanhua, Liu Dong, Zhang Lei, Ma Yi, Tang Chun, Wang Weimin. All-Solid-State Narrow Linewidth Sodium Guide Star Laser[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2009, 36(7): 1848

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    Received: Sep. 1, 2008

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jul. 16, 2009

    The Author Email: Yanhua Lu (happyeleo@yahoo.com.cn)

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