基于DSP技术的外腔半导体激光器自动稳频系统

实现了一种基于数字信号处理(DSP)技术的外腔半导体激光器的自动稳频装置。该自动稳频装置以铷原子的饱和吸收谱线作为频率参考,采用调制解调技术得到稳频所需的鉴频信号。激光自动稳频装置通过模数转换器以固定的速率不间断地采集饱和吸收信号和鉴频信号,由DSP芯片对采集到的数字信号进行处理和分析。DSP芯片利用通用输入输出端口控制调制信号的开关状态,通过数模转换器控制激光频率扫描以及输出数字反馈。利用所述的激光稳频技术不仅实现了外腔半导体激光器自动稳频,而且能够实时评估激光器的锁定情况,在激光器失锁后及时重新锁定,提高了激光器的长期运行能力。最后,将使用自动稳频技术的激光器应用于空间冷原子钟原理样机地面实验中,该稳频激光可以满足相关科学实验的需求。     

铷原子饱和吸收光谱与偏振光谱对780nm半导体激光器稳频的比较

将激光频率锁定于合适的参考频率,可以有效地抑制激光器的频率起伏。本文采用铷原子D2线超精细跃迁线的饱和吸收光谱和偏振光谱分别获得鉴频曲线,通过电子伺服系统将频率校正信号负反馈到780 nm光栅外腔反馈半导体激光器外腔的压电陶瓷上的方法对激光器进行稳频。介绍了两种方法的基本原理和实验方案。与激光器自由运转300s时激光器典型的频率起伏约6.6 MHz相比,采用饱和吸收光谱和偏振光谱进行稳频,运转300 s时激光器典型的残余频率起伏分别约为1.5 MHz和0.6 MHz。分析表明,饱和吸收光谱稳频采用了相敏检波技术,需要对激光器进行频率调制,带来了额外的频率噪声,而偏振光谱稳频则是一种完全无频率调制的稳频方案。     

铷原子饱和吸收光谱与偏振光谱对780nm半导体激光器稳频的比较

将激光频率锁定于合适的参考频率,可以有效地抑制激光器的频率起伏。本文采用铷原子D2线超精细跃迁线的饱和吸收光谱和偏振光谱分别获得鉴频曲线,通过电子伺服系统将频率校正信号负反馈到780 nm光栅外腔反馈半导体激光器外腔的压电陶瓷上的方法对激光器进行稳频。介绍了两种方法的基本原理和实验方案。与激光器自由运转300s时激光器典型的频率起伏约6.6 MHz相比,采用饱和吸收光谱和偏振光谱进行稳频,运转300 s时激光器典型的残余频率起伏分别约为1.5 MHz和0.6 MHz。分析表明,饱和吸收光谱稳频采用了相敏检波技术,需要对激光器进行频率调制,带来了额外的频率噪声,而偏振光谱稳频则是一种完全无频率调制的稳频方案。     

Rb原子饱和吸收稳频半导体激光器系统

用饱和吸收光谱法对半导体激光器进行稳频，通过对反馈回路的优化设计，得到具有高信噪比的饱和吸收光谱微分误差信号，从而大大提高了半导体激光器的频率锁定灵敏度及长期稳定性，该中用于Rb原子的激光冷却与囚禁。     

基于二次谐波特性的DFB激光器稳频新方法研究

窄线宽稳频激光器在工业生产控制中具有广泛的应用,但自由运转的半导体激光器的频率漂移限制了激光器的使用。为稳定半导体激光器的频率,提出了一种基于二次谐波吸收特性来实现窄线宽二极管激光器的稳频新方法,利用1.396 μm的DFB二极管激光器测量水汽的二次谐波信号来实现激光的稳频,实验结果表明在100 h内激光器输出波长漂移有效的抑制在±0.16 pm范围内,激光稳频后,其吸收峰的位置不随环境温度的变化而漂移。该方法具有简单、可靠等优点,对二极管激光频率的稳定具有广阔的应用前景。     

利用原子的塞曼光谱对半导体激光器进行稳频

中性原子的超精细能级在磁场中产生塞曼分裂 ,另外 ,左旋和右旋圆偏振光激发下原子的跃迁选择定则不同 ,因此 ,原子在超精细塞曼能级间的吸收谱峰相对无磁场条件下的吸收谱峰有一定的移动。利用这一点 ,验证了一种简单、灵活的方法对半导体激光器进行稳频 ,使激光器的线宽稳到小于 1MHz。通过对实验结果的分析 ,发现由左旋和右旋圆偏振光激发引起的原子吸收谱峰移动之和与饱和吸收峰半高宽相等时 ,稳频效果最好     

Rb原子的激光囚禁

用饱和吸收光谱法对二极管激光器进行稳频,使激光器的有效线宽小于１ＭＨｚ,并利用声光调制器使激光的频移量得到控制,满足了激光冷却与因禁原子对激光频率生和频 量的 Ｒｂ原子的激光囚禁。     

用于BEC的Rb原子饱和吸收稳频半导体激光器系统

用于冷却和俘获原子的激光器要求窄线宽和稳定性好.为了满足要求,在实验上我们使用的半导体激光器采用主振荡器--功率放大 (Master-oscillator power amplifier: MOPA) 式单频半导体激光器TA100 (德国 Topicas).     

半导体激光器塞曼调制稳频的实验对比研究

首先阐述了实现半导体激光器外调制锁频方案的必要性,并针对一种利用塞曼效应进行外调制稳频的实验方案,详细地阐述了其基本思想和实验原理,以及这种稳频方案相对于一般的内调制饱和吸收稳频技术在实验上的差异.本文给出的具体实验参数和实验结果表明,这种方案相对于其他方案可以获得同等好的锁频质量.不仅如此,本文还给出了塞曼调制稳频和电流调制稳频的锁定频率输出的监视对比情况,从对比结果中,我们可以清楚地看到塞曼调制稳频使得激光器锁定频率无调制输出的优越特性.     

稳频半导体激光器的温度控制技术

设计了一种用于半导体激光器稳频的恒温控制器,在室温下2h的测试时间中,测试恒温稳定度为5mK,配合稳定度为±2μA的恒流源,半导体激光器自由运行时激光频率波动稳定在100MHz范围内。     

Controlling the frequency of the frequency-shifted feedback fiber laser using injection-seeding technique

In this paper we describe the stabilization of the optical frequency comb (OFC) generated by the frequency-shifted feedback (FSF) erbium fiber laser. Frequency of the comb is controlled using the distributed feedback laser diode seeded into the cavity of the FSF laser. When the DFB diode is stabilized to the molecular absorption line of hydrogen cyanide frequency stabilized OFC is obtained.     

Synchronous Injection Locking Operation of Monolithic Diode Lasers Mode-Locked Diode Lasers

Synchronized mode-locking of monolithic mode-locked diode lasers has been demonstrated by injecting the light output from a master monolithic mode-locked diode laser. The master diode laser is a 10 GHZ hybridly mode-locked two section InGaASP quantum well laser. The slave lasers are a 10 GHz two section laser which is similar to the master laser, and a 20 GHz three section colliding pulse mode-locking laser. Both the slave lasers were greatly stabilized at 10 GHz frequency by a synchronous mode-locking mechanism under the injection of master laser pulses.     

基于1.6μm甲烷气体吸收线的半导体激光器频率稳定性分析

利用波长调制技术以及数字PI控制器将外腔二极管激光器（ECDL）稳定到1.6 μm处的甲烷气体吸收线上.稳定后的激光频率波动小于5.6 MHz,相对于自由运转时的160 MHz有了很大提高, 而误差信号的Allan方差均方根（即稳定度）在平均积分时间为64 s时达到最小值1.66×10－11.从理论上定性分析了频率稳定度受到的各种限制因素,最后得出本实验中频率稳定度主要受频率调制和探测器噪声限制的结论,同时给出了提高频率稳定度的方法.被稳定的激光器主要用于为甲烷气体浓度监测提供频率参考.     

电光晶体调谐的外腔反馈半导体激光器

报道一种用电光晶体实现快速调谐和凋制激光频率的方法.在Littrow型外腔反馈半导体激光中插入LiNbO3晶体,利用LiNbO3晶体的电光效应,通过改变晶体电压来调节激光器的有效腔长,可以对激光频率进行快速的调谐和调制.采用该方法,自制外腔反馈半导体激光器的调谐频率可达到2 kHz,它的调谐范围为350 MHz,激光频率调谐系数约为1.06 MHz/V,用饱和吸收光谱观测频率调谐的效果.快速激光频率调制可以应用在稳频技术上,将外腔反馈半导体激光器调制在5～100 kHz频率下,均获得了87Rb原子D2线的饱和吸收光谱的色散信号,并实现了激光频率在饱和吸收峰上的长期稳定.     

Injection locking of a diode laser locked to a Zeeman frequency stabilized laser oscillator

We describe the design and performance of an injection-locked diode laser locked to a stabilized, single frequency, unmodulated diode laser. The master oscillator is a grating-tuned, external cavity diode laser which is stabilized on a Doppler free alkali metal resonance transition frequency via Zeeman locking. The master oscillator frequency is shifted by an acousto-optic modulator, which provides optical isolation of the master oscillator laser while tuning of the acousto-optic modulation frequency can also provide frequency offset tuning. The slave laser is a free running diode which is injection-locked by a small fraction of the frequency shifted master oscillator light. Good long- and short-time frequency stability are observed for both the Zeeman-locked master oscillator and the injection-locked slave laser.     

Frequency comb-referenced narrow line width diode laser system for coherent molecular spectroscopy

We analyze in detail the frequency noise properties of a grating enhanced external cavity diode laser (GEECDL). This system merges two diode laser concepts, the grating stabilized diode laser and the diode laser with resonant optical feedback, thus combining a large tuning range with an excellent short-term frequency stability. We compare the frequency noise spectrum of a GEECDL to that of a grating stabilized diode laser and demonstrate a 10-fold reduction of the frequency noise linear spectral density. The GEECDL is phase locked to a similar laser and to a fs-frequency comb with a servo loop providing an open-loop unity-gain frequency of only 237 kHz, which is a tenth of the bandwidth typically required for grating stabilized diode lasers. We achieve a residual rms phase error as small as 72 mrad (≈ 200 mrad) for stabilization to a similar laser (to the fs-frequency comb). We demonstrate that the novel diode laser can phase-coherently track a stable optical reference with an instability of 1.8×10^-16 at 1 s. This laser system is well suited for applications that require phase locking to a low-power optical reference under noisy conditions. It may also be considered for the implementation of optical clock lasers. PACS 42.55.Px; 42.60.Jf; 42.50.Gy     

Frequency-stabilized seed laser system for dial applications around 0.94 μm

Absolute frequency stabilization of an extended-cavity diode laser at 0.94 μm is reported. The diode laser was frequency locked against rovibrational absorption lines of water vapour by using the frequency modulation spectroscopy technique. The stabilized oscillator shows a short-term frequency stability level of 40 kHz for integration times of 1 s and a long-term frequency drift lower than 10 MHz for observation times longer than 10³ s. The frequency-stabilized oscillator system is mounted on a compact breadboard (75 cm×50 cm) and constitutes the seed laser system for the injection of a high-energy DIAL laser transmitter operating in the 0.94-μm spectral region.