Laser frequency stabilization and control through offset sideband locking to optical cavities.

We describe a class of techniques whereby a laser frequency can be stabilized to a fixed optical cavity resonance with an adjustable offset, providing a wide tuning range for the central frequency. These techniques require only minor modifications to the standard Pound-Drever-Hall locking techniques and have the advantage of not altering the intrinsic stability of the frequency reference. We discuss the expected performance and limitations of these techniques and present a laboratory investigation in which both the sideband techniques and the standard, on-tunable Pound-Drever- Hall technique reached the 100Hz/square root(Hz) level.

• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Optics Express

• Publication date

  2008-09-29

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Physics, Medicine, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1364/OE.16.015980PMID 18825236
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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