ABSOLUTE FREQUENCY STABILITY OF A DIODE-LASER-PUMPED ND-YAG LASER STABILIZED TO A HIGH-FINESSE OPTICAL CAVITY

Authors
NAKAGAWA K SHELKOVNIKOV AS KATSUDA T OHTSU M
Citation
K. Nakagawa et al., ABSOLUTE FREQUENCY STABILITY OF A DIODE-LASER-PUMPED ND-YAG LASER STABILIZED TO A HIGH-FINESSE OPTICAL CAVITY, Applied optics, 33(27), 1994, pp. 6383-6386
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036935
Volume
33
Issue
27
Year of publication
1994
Pages
6383 - 6386
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6935(1994)33:27<6383:AFSOAD>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
We report the frequency stabilization of a diode-laser-pumped monolith ic ring Nd:YAG laser locked to a high-finesse optical cavity. With an independent cavity as a frequency discriminator, the absolute frequenc y noise was measured to be as low as 2 x 10(-2) Hz/Hz1/2 at the Fourie r frequency of approximately 3 kHz. We also measured the heterodyne be at note between two lasers locked to the independent cavities. The bea t linewidth is narrower than 30 Hz and the minimum root Allan variance is approximately 6 x 10(-14).