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dc.contributor.authorBottger, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorPryde, GJ
dc.contributor.authorThiel, CW
dc.contributor.authorCone, RL
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-04T23:29:10Z
dc.date.available2019-04-04T23:29:10Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.modified2009-09-16T07:43:21Z
dc.identifier.issn0022-2313
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jlumin.2007.02.012
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/15623
dc.description.abstractSingle-frequency diode lasers have been frequency stabilized to 1.5 kHz Allan deviation over 0.05-50 s integration times, with laser frequency drift reduced to less than 1.4 kHz/min, using the frequency reference provided by an ultranarrow inhomogeneously broadened Er3+:4I15/2?4I13/2 optical absorption transition at a vacuum wavelength of 1530.40 nm in a low-strain LiYF4 crystal. The 130 MHz full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) inhomogeneous line width of this reference transition is the narrowest reported for a solid at 1.5 孮 Strain-induced inhomogeneous broadening was reduced by using the single isotope 7Li and by the very similar radii of Er3+ and the Y3+ ions for which it substitutes. To show the practicability of cryogen-free cooling, this laser stability was obtained with the reference crystal at 5 K; moreover, this performance did not require vibrational isolation of either the laser or crystal frequency reference. Stabilization is feasible up to T=25 K where the Er3+ absorption thermally broadens to 500 MHz. This stabilized laser system provides a tool for interferometry, high-resolution spectroscopy, real-time optical signal processing based on spatial spectral holography and accumulated photon echoes, secondary frequency standards, and other applications such as quantum information science requiring narrow-band light sources or coherent detection.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505700/description#description
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom83
dc.relation.ispartofpageto88
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Luminescence
dc.relation.ispartofvolume127
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAtomic, molecular and optical physics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPhysical chemistry
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5102
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3406
dc.titleLaser frequency stabilization at 1.5 microns using ultranarrow inhomogeneous absorption profiles in Er3+:LiYF4
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2007
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorPryde, Geoff


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