100-Hz Linewidth Diode Laser With External Optical Feedback

Author

Zhao, Yang ; Li, Ye ; Wang, Qiang ; Meng, Fei ; Lin, Yige ; Wang, Shaokai ; Lin, Baike ; Cao, Shiying ; Cao, Jianping ; Fang, Zhanjun ; Li, Tianchu ; Zang, Erjun

Author_Institution

Div. of Time & Freq. Metrol., Nat. Inst. of Metrol., Beijing, China

Volume

24

Issue

20

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1795

Lastpage

1798

Abstract

We present a narrow-linewidth diode laser with optical feedback from a high-finesse two-mirror nonconfocal cavity. The laser´s full-width-at-half-maximum linewidth is reduced to 100 Hz, and its instantaneous linewidth to 30 Hz in the Lorentzian fitting. To the best of our knowledge, it is the narrowest linewidth ever achieved with the optical feedback method. The laser phase noise has been significantly reduced by more than 50 dB in the frequency range from 10 Hz to 10 kHz. Our experiment demonstrates the efficient laser linewidth reduction and phase noise suppression by the optical feedback technique.

Keywords

laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser feedback; laser mirrors; laser noise; phase noise; semiconductor lasers; Lorentzian fitting; diode laser; external optical feedback; full width at half maximum linewidth; high finesse two mirror nonconfocal cavity; laser linewidth reduction; phase noise suppression; Cavity resonators; Diode lasers; Laser feedback; Measurement by laser beam; Optical feedback; Semiconductor lasers; Diode lasers; laser stability; optical feedback; optical injection; optical resonators;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2012.2214029

Filename

6280619