Frequency-looked He-Ne laser system: stability measurements

Gheorghe Popescu; Sorin Martoiu

doi:10.1117/12.432813

29 June 2001 Frequency-locked He-Ne laser system: stability measurements

Gheorghe Popescu, Sorin Martoiu

Proceedings Volume 4430, ROMOPTO 2000: Sixth Conference on Optics; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.432813
Event: ROMOPTO 2000: Sixth Conference on Optics, 2000, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract

An iodine-stabilized He-Ne laser and a short external-mirror laser operating in single-longitudinal mode were used to form a master-slave laser system at 633-nm wavelength. As compared to the beam from the master laser, the beam of the slave laser is frequency-modulation-free and has a higher power. Also, the slave laser oscillation frequency is offset-locked in iodine-stabilized He-Ne laser by using a fast phase lock loop (PLL) circuit. The fluctuations of the frequency offset between the master and the slave lasers were less than 5 parts in 10¹³ with a 100 s gate time (the relative standard Allan variance was determined measuring the beat frequency between the master laser and the slave laser for different gate times while the iodine- stabilized laser was locked to different lines from the group d, e, f, g). The system proved a fast response and allows for a frequency offset of up to 300 MHz.

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Gheorghe Popescu and Sorin Martoiu "Frequency-locked He-Ne laser system: stability measurements", Proc. SPIE 4430, ROMOPTO 2000: Sixth Conference on Optics, (29 June 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.432813

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