The realization of compact high-power narrow-linewidth laser sources in the visible range has been a long-standing interest for the atomic physics community, especially in the field of laser cooling and trapping of alkaline-earth and alkaline-earth-like atoms. We report a simple master-slave injection-locked laser system capable of generating 500 mW at 460.86 nm with a linewidth of 1.6 MHz to realize magneto-optical trapping of strontium atoms on the 5s(2) S-1(0) - 5s5p P-1(1) transition. The master laser used is an external cavity diode laser built with an anti-reflection coated laser diode in a Littrow configuration and the slave laser is built with a recently launched single mode high power GaN laser diode. We characterized the frequency noise, injection stability, spectral purity and relative intensity noise of the laser system. The reported laser system is used routinely to produce 10(7) strontium atoms at a temperature of 10 mK in a magneto-optical trap. The laser system offers a prominent alternative to the existing frequency-doubled laser systems in terms of cost, design flexibility, electrical power consumption, ease of scaling, intensity stability, and frequency tunability. The proposed system is also an effective solution for space-based experiments where a laser system's size, weight, and electrical power consumption are crucial design parameters.

A scalable laser system at 461 nm for laser cooling and trapping of Sr atoms / Verma, G; Wang, EL; Assendelft, J; Poli, N; Rosi, G; Tino, GM; Salvi, L. - In: APPLIED PHYSICS. B, LASERS AND OPTICS. - ISSN 0946-2171. - STAMPA. - 128:(2022), pp. 100-1-100-13. [10.1007/s00340-022-07815-w]

A scalable laser system at 461 nm for laser cooling and trapping of Sr atoms

Verma, G;Assendelft, J;Poli, N;Rosi, G;Tino, GM;Salvi, L
2022

Abstract

The realization of compact high-power narrow-linewidth laser sources in the visible range has been a long-standing interest for the atomic physics community, especially in the field of laser cooling and trapping of alkaline-earth and alkaline-earth-like atoms. We report a simple master-slave injection-locked laser system capable of generating 500 mW at 460.86 nm with a linewidth of 1.6 MHz to realize magneto-optical trapping of strontium atoms on the 5s(2) S-1(0) - 5s5p P-1(1) transition. The master laser used is an external cavity diode laser built with an anti-reflection coated laser diode in a Littrow configuration and the slave laser is built with a recently launched single mode high power GaN laser diode. We characterized the frequency noise, injection stability, spectral purity and relative intensity noise of the laser system. The reported laser system is used routinely to produce 10(7) strontium atoms at a temperature of 10 mK in a magneto-optical trap. The laser system offers a prominent alternative to the existing frequency-doubled laser systems in terms of cost, design flexibility, electrical power consumption, ease of scaling, intensity stability, and frequency tunability. The proposed system is also an effective solution for space-based experiments where a laser system's size, weight, and electrical power consumption are crucial design parameters.
2022
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100-1
100-13
Verma, G; Wang, EL; Assendelft, J; Poli, N; Rosi, G; Tino, GM; Salvi, L
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