An iodine-stabilized Yb:YAG laser

Author

Hong, Feng-Lei ; Inaba, Hajime ; Hosaka, Kazumoto ; Yasuda, Masami ; Kohno, Takuya ; Watabe, Ken-ichi

Author_Institution

Nat. Metrol. Inst. of Japan (NMIJ), Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol. (AIST), Tsukuba

fYear

2008

fDate

8-13 June 2008

Firstpage

166

Lastpage

167

Abstract

A monolithic-ring-cavity Yb:YAG laser is frequency doubled and used to perform Doppler-free spectroscopy of molecular iodine at 515 nm. The Allan standard deviation of the iodine-stabilized Yb:YAG laser is better than 6.2times10^-14 for a 10-s averaging time, which is limited by the stability of the H-maser involved in the frequency measurement using an optical comb.

Keywords

frequency measurement; laser cavity resonators; laser frequency stability; laser variables measurement; masers; optical harmonic generation; ring lasers; solid lasers; ytterbium; yttrium compounds; Doppler-free spectroscopy; H-maser stability; YAG:Yb; frequency doubling; frequency measurement; iodine-stabilized laser; molecular iodine; monolithic-ring-cavity laser; optical comb; wavelength 515 nm; Fiber lasers; Frequency measurement; Laser stability; Laser theory; Laser transitions; Laser tuning; Masers; Measurement standards; Spectroscopy; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Precision Electromagnetic Measurements Digest, 2008. CPEM 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

Broomfield, CO

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2399-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2400-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CPEM.2008.4574705

Filename

4574705