Narrow-Bandwidth CW Dye Laser with High Output Power
Abstract
For investigations of fine details of atomic energy spectra light sources are required which emit light with very well defined frequency. A powerful tunable light source is the cw dye laser. Since the frequency of a free-running laser jitters, it has to be stabilized. In order to avoid the high internal losses of a stabilization system with an intracavity electrooptic crystal, a very fast piezoelectric mirror translator has been developed. It was driven by properly designed electronics. Thus a small laser frequency bandwidth of 270 kHz rms with an output power of up to 200 mW was obtained. The laser system was tested in a sub-natural linewidth two-photon experiment with Na atoms.
- Publication:
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European Electro-Optics Conference
- Pub Date:
- July 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.965491
- Bibcode:
- 1979SPIE..164...17J
- Keywords:
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- Bandwidth;
- Continuous Wave Lasers;
- Dye Lasers;
- High Power Lasers;
- Instrument Compensation;
- Piezoelectric Transducers;
- Crystal Optics;
- Electro-Optics;
- Hyperfine Structure;
- Laser Cavities;
- Laser Outputs;
- Sodium;
- Systems Stability;
- Tuning;
- Lasers and Masers