ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
We report frequency locking of a Nd:YAG tunable laser to a 2000 finesse 87-cm-long Fabry–Pérot cavity in air using the Pound–Drever technique. The novelty is that the necessary phase modulation of the beam is obtained using the laser directly instead of an external phase modulator (Pockels cell). The spurious relative amplitude modulation using this method was ∼3×10−5 with a modulation index β∼1 and the spectral density of the frequency difference between the laser and the cavity is below 1 mHz/(square root of)Hz in the region 1–500 Hz. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1145555
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