Iodine stabilized dye laser system for traceable calibration of secondary wavelength standard HeNe lasers

Author

Madej, A.A. ; Ball, M.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Nat. Meas. Stand., Nat. Res. Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

2002

fDate

16-21 June 2002

Firstpage

216

Lastpage

217

Abstract

A dye laser system tuneable from 540 nm to 670 nm and stabilized to reference iodine saturated absorption resonances is described. The current system allows traceable calibration of a number of visible and near IR HeNe reference frequencies. Evaluation of the system´s stability and accuracy were obtained via a heterodyne intercomparison with a NRC 633 nm iodine stabilized HeNe laser.

Keywords

calibration; dye lasers; gas lasers; helium; iodine; laser frequency stability; laser tuning; measurement by laser beam; measurement standards; neon; 540 to 670 nm; 633 nm; He; He-Ne; I-stabilized dye laser system; Ne; heterodyne intercomparison; near IR HeNe reference frequencies; reference iodine saturated absorption resonances; secondary wavelength standard He-Ne lasers; system accuracy evaluation; system stability evaluation; traceable calibration; visible HeNe reference frequencies; Absorption; Calibration; Frequency; Laser stability; Laser transitions; Laser tuning; Optical interferometry; Optical mixing; Optical saturation; Pump lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Precision Electromagnetic Measurements, 2002. Conference Digest 2002 Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7242-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CPEM.2002.1034798

Filename

1034798