High-accuracy wavemeter based on a stabilized diode laser

Banerjee, Ayan and Rapol, Umakant D and Wasan, Ajay and Natarajan, Vasant (2001) High-accuracy wavemeter based on a stabilized diode laser. In: Applied Physics Letters, 79 (14). pp. 2139-2141.

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Abstract

We have built a high-accuracy wavelength meter for tunable lasers using a scanning Michelson interferometer and a reference laser of known wavelength. The reference laser is a frequency-stabilized diode laser locked to an atomic transition in Rb. The wavemeter has a statistical error per measurement of 5 parts in $10^7$, which can be reduced considerably by averaging. Using a second stabilized diode laser, we have verified that systematic errors are below 4 parts in $10^8$.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Applied Physics Letters
Publisher:	American Institute of Physics
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to American Institute of Physics.
Keywords:	High-accuracy wavemeter;stabilized diode laser
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2005
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:18
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/2972

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