Tunable cw UV laser with <35 kHz absolute frequency instability for precision spectroscopy of Sr Rydberg states
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Keegan, NC
Bounds, AD
Boddy, D
Sadler, DP
Jones, MPA
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We present a solid-state laser system that generates over 200mW of continuous-wave, narrowband light, tunable from 316.3 nm -317.7 nm and 318.0 nm - 319.3 nm. The laser is based on commercially available fiber amplifiers and optical frequency doubling technology, along with sum frequency generation in a periodically poled stoichiometric lithium tantalate crystal. The laser frequency is stabilized to an atomic-referenced high finesse optical transfer cavity. Using a GPS-referenced optical frequency comb we measure a long term frequency instability of <35 kHz for timescales between 10-3 s and 103 s. As an application we perform spectroscopy of Sr Rydberg states from n = 37 - 81, demonstrating mode-hopfree scans of 24 GHz. In a cold atomic sample we measure Doppler-limited linewidths of 350 kHz.
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Optics Express
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24
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3
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© 2016 OSA. Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.
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Atomic, molecular and optical physics
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Bridge, EM; Keegan, NC; Bounds, AD; Boddy, D; Sadler, DP; Jones, MPA, Tunable cw UV laser with <35 kHz absolute frequency instability for precision spectroscopy of Sr Rydberg states, Optics Express, 2016, 24 (3), pp. 2281-2292