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Frequency Comparison of 127I2-Stabilized Nd: YAG Laser

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Author(s)

F L. Hong, K Ishikawa, J Yoda, J Ye, L -. Ma, John L. Hall

Abstract

A first international comparison of I2-stabilized Nd: YAG lasers has been made between the National Research Laboratory of Metrology (NRLM), Tsukuba, Japan, the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics JILA (formerly the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics), Boulder, CO, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. The results of the comparison show that the square root Allan variance of the portable NRLM laser has reached 2 x 1014 when the integration time is larger than 300 s. Matrix measurements were made for five hyperfine components from a6 to a10 of the R(56) 32-0 line. The averaged frequency difference between the NRLM and JILA lasers for four measurements made on three separate days was - 4996 Hz (NRLM-JILA, at 532 nm) with a standard deviation of 88 Hz.
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
Volume
48
Issue
No. 2
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

frequency control, frequency stability, laser stability, lasers, neodymium, spectroscopy, standards, YAG

Citation

Hong, F. , Ishikawa, K. , Yoda, J. , Ye, J. , Ma, L. and Hall, J. (1999), Frequency Comparison of <sup>127</sup>I<sub>2</sub>-Stabilized Nd: YAG Laser, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (Accessed December 13, 2024)

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Created March 31, 1999, Updated October 12, 2021