FAST FREQUENCY STABILIZATION OF A DIODE-LASER-PUMPED MONOLITHIC ND-YAG LASER WITH AN EXTRA-CAVITY ELECTROOPTIC MODULATOR

Authors
NAKAGAWA K SHELKOVNIKOV AS KATSUDA T OHTSU M
Citation
K. Nakagawa et al., FAST FREQUENCY STABILIZATION OF A DIODE-LASER-PUMPED MONOLITHIC ND-YAG LASER WITH AN EXTRA-CAVITY ELECTROOPTIC MODULATOR, Optics communications, 109(5-6), 1994, pp. 446-450
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
109
Issue
5-6
Year of publication
1994
Pages
446 - 450
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1994)109:5-6<446:FFSOAD>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
A frequency stabilization of a diode-laser-pumped monolithic ring Nd:Y AG laser is described using an extra-cavity electro-optic modulator as a fast phase transducer. A feedback bandwidth of 600 kHz has been obt ained and the frequency noise relative to the reference cavity has bee n fully reduced to the shot-noise limit at frequency less than 10 kHz. The minimum frequency noise has been reached to 7 x 10(-5) Hz/square- root Hz using the cavity input power of 30 mW.