Widely tunable continuous-wave Raman laser in diatomic hydrogen pumped by an external-cavity diode laser

被引：33

作者：

Meng, LS ^{[1
]}

Repasky, KS ^{[1
]}

Roos, PA ^{[1
]}

Carlsten, JL ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Montana State Univ, Dept Phys, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 2000年 / 25卷 / 07期

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D O I：

10.1364/OL.25.000472

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

What is to the authors' knowledge the first experimental demonstration of a nonresonant cw Raman laser pumped by a tunable external-cavity diode laser (ECDL) is presented. The ECDL is phase-frequency locked to a high-finesse Raman laser cavity containing diatomic hydrogen (H-2) by the Pound-Drever-Hall locking technique. The Stokes lasing threshold occurs at a pump power of 400 +/- 30 mu W, and a maximum photon conversion efficiency of 12.0 +/- 1.3% is achieved at 1.6 mW of pump power. A 40-nm tuning range of the cw Stokes emission, 1174-1214 nm, is obtained by tuning of the wavelength of the ECDL pump source. (C) 2000 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 140.3550, 140.3600, 190.2640, 190.2620, 300.6340.

引用

页码：472 / 474

页数：3

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