A DYE-LASER SPECTROMETER FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY

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作者
DIRSCHERL, J
NEIZERT, B
WEGENER, T
WALTHER, H
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[1] Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik
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10.1016/0030-4018(92)90114-7
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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A high resolution dye laser spectrometer is described. The laser frequency is locked to a resonance frequency of a high finesse Fabry-Perot cavity by a sideband modulation technique. The residual frequency fluctuations of the stabilized laser were measured with respect to an independent frequency discriminator. From this measurement a value of the Allan variance of 10(-14) at sampling times ranging between 10(-5) and 1 s was derived, indicating a laser linewidth of 10 Hz. By Doppler-free two-photon excitation of rubidium Rydberg states we observed optical Ramsey fringes with a linewidth (fwhm) of 7.5 kHz limited by the time-of-flight of the atoms between the separated interaction zones.
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