Laser frequency offset locking using electromagnetically induced transparency

S. C. Bell; D. M. Heywood; J. D. White; J. D. Close; R. E. Scholten

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Laser frequency offset locking using electromagnetically induced transparency

S. C. Bell^*, D. M. Heywood, J. D. White, J. D. Close, R. E. Scholten

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The authors have used an electromagnetically induced transparency resonance in rubidium as a dispersive reference to lock the relative frequency of two lasers to the atomic ground-state hyperfine splitting. The beat frequency between the two lasers directly generates a microwave signal at 3.036 GHz (Rb85) or 6.835 GHz (Rb87). High bandwidth (600 kHz) feedback was achieved with only low-frequency (10 MHz) electronics using the frequency modulation sideband method. The spectral width of the microwave beat frequency was reduced to less than 1 kHz. The technique offers a convenient and low-cost method suitable for many topical two-frequency experiments, including coherent population trapping, slow light, lasing without inversion, and Raman sideband cooling.

Original language	English
Article number	171120
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	90
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2734471
Publication status	Published - 2007

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