A compact injection-locked Nd:YAG laser for gravitational wave detection

Author

Ottaway, D.J. ; Veitch, P.J. ; Hamilton, M.W. ; Hollitt, C. ; Mudge, D. ; Munch, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Math. Phys., Adelaide Univ., SA, Australia

Volume

34

Issue

10

fYear

1998

fDate

10/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2006

Lastpage

2009

Abstract

We have designed and characterized a diode-pumped injection-locked Nd:YAG laser suitable for precision metrology. The laser uses a simple side-pumped laser architecture and is compact, efficient, stable, and scalable. The frequency stability of the injection-locked slave laser is shown to be limited by the monolithic master oscillator and its intensity noise is 4×10^-6 Hz^-1/2 at 1 kHz

Keywords

gravitational wave detectors; laser frequency stability; laser mode locking; laser noise; neodymium; remote sensing by laser beam; solid lasers; 1 kHz; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; frequency noise performance; frequency stability; gravitational wave astronomy; gravitational wave detection; injection-locked Nd:YAG laser; injection-locked slave laser; intensity noise; monolithic master oscillator; precision metrology; side-pumped laser architecture; Diodes; Frequency; Injection-locked oscillators; Laser mode locking; Laser modes; Laser noise; Laser stability; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Ring lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.720240

Filename

720240