Phase locking of a frequency agile laser

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作者
Crozatier, Vincent
Gorju, Guillaume
Bretenaker, Fabien
Le Gouet, Jean-Louis
Lorgere, Ivan
Gagnol, Claude
Ducloux, Eric
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[1] Univ Paris 11, CNR, Aime Cotton Lab, F-91405 Orsay, France
[2] NetTest, Anritsu, F-91120 Palaiseau, France
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10.1063/1.2424659
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O59 [应用物理学];
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The authors report on the development and phase locking of a frequency agile laser. The use of a simple unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer together with a wideband phase-locked loop permits to control very fast frequency chirps (up to 3 GHz in 5 mu s) with an excellent precision (frequency error less than 100 kHz). The servoloop could be applied to many tunable lasers. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
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