• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 14, Issue 7, 071403 (2016)
Xiuxiu Yang, Yanning Yin, Xingjia Li, Supeng Xu, Yong Xia*, and Jianping Yin
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  • State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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    Xiuxiu Yang, Yanning Yin, Xingjia Li, Supeng Xu, Yong Xia, Jianping Yin. External cavity diode laser as a stable-frequency light source for application in laser cooling of molecules[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2016, 14(7): 071403 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We demonstrate a scheme to use a Littman configuration external cavity diode laser (ECDL) as a stable-frequency light source to stabilize two cw single-mode Ti:sapphire lasers for laser cooling of magnesium fluoride molecules. An ECDL based on the Littman configuration is constructed and stabilized by a digital signal processor system. We stabilize the frequency of our ECDL to ±0.77 MHz precision over 10 h and the Allan standard deviation reaches 2.6×10 11 at an integration time of 10 s. We lock two Ti:sapphire lasers through a transfer cavity, and either laser has a long-term frequency stability of ±2.5 MHz.
    V=Pe(t)+Ie(t),(1)

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    ωconversionkslope×Δerror=±0.77MHz.(2)

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    σy2(τ)=12(M1)i=1M1(yi+1¯yi¯)2,(3)

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    σ1(τ)=σ2(τ)=12σtot(τ),(4)

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    Xiuxiu Yang, Yanning Yin, Xingjia Li, Supeng Xu, Yong Xia, Jianping Yin. External cavity diode laser as a stable-frequency light source for application in laser cooling of molecules[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2016, 14(7): 071403
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