Active Stabilization of External Cavity Diode Laser Rapidly Chirped over 10 GHz by an Optoelectronic Digital Servo-loop Control

Author

Gorju, G. ; Jucha, A. ; Crozatier, V. ; Lorgeré, I. ; Le Gouët, J.L. ; Bretenaker, F.

Author_Institution

Lab. Aime Cotton, Orsay

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Monomode laser sources with fast frequency chirping capabilities are crucial in several fields, including optical processing of RF signals (Gorju, et. al., 2005), reflectometry or coherent manipulation of atoms. All these domains need fast and mode-hop-free frequency scans through a broad spectral range (typically 10 GHz in 1 ms) with high spectral purity. It means that the frequency deviation from a perfect linear chirp has to be much lower than 1 MHz when integrated over the whole chirp bandwidth.

Keywords

chirp modulation; optoelectronic devices; semiconductor lasers; servomechanisms; active stabilization; fast frequency chirping; frequency 10 GHz; monomode laser sources; optoelectronic digital servo loop control; rapidly chirped; xternal cavity diode laser; Atom optics; Atomic beams; Bandwidth; Chirp; Digital control; Diode lasers; Frequency; Laser modes; Optical control; Reflectometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4385934

Filename

4385934