External cavity diode laser as a stable-frequency light source for application in laser cooling of molecules

Xiuxiu Yang; Yanning Yin; Xingjia Li; Supeng Xu; Yong Xia; Jianping Yin

doi:10.3788/COL201614.071403

External cavity diode laser as a stable-frequency light source for application in laser cooling of molecules

Xiuxiu Yang
, Yanning Yin
, Xingjia Li
, Supeng Xu
, Yong Xia^*
, Jianping Yin

^*Corresponding author for this work

East China Normal University

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Abstract

We demonstrate a scheme to use a Littman configuration external cavity diode laser (ECDL) as a stablefrequency light source to stabilize two cw single-mode Ti:sapphire lasers for laser cooling of magnesium fluoride molecules. An ECDL based on the Littman configuration is constructed and stabilized by a digital signal processor system. We stabilize the frequency of our ECDL to ±0.77 MHz precision over 10 h and the Allan standard deviation reaches 2.6×10^-11 at an integration time of 10 s. We lock two Ti: sapphire lasers through a transfer cavity, and either laser has a long-term frequency stability of ±2.5 MHz.

Original language	English
Article number	071403
Journal	Chinese Optics Letters
Volume	14
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3788/COL201614.071403
State	Published - 10 Jul 2016
Externally published	Yes

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