Nonlinear spectroscopy with a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) |
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| Authors: | C Affolderbach A Nagel S Knappe C Jung D Wiedenmann R Wynands |
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| Institution: | Institut für Angewandte Physik, Universit?t Bonn, Wegelerstrasse 8, 53115 Bonn, Germany (Fax: +49-228/733-474, E-mail: wynands@iap.uni-bonn.de), DE
Abteilung Optoelektronik, Universit?t Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 45, 89069 Ulm, Germany, DE
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| Abstract: | We have evaluated the suitability of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser diode (VCSEL) for spectroscopic applications.
Despite its low output power it is possible to observe narrow resonances in a saturated absorption spectroscopy experiment
on the cesium D
2 transition at 852 nm, limited in width by the laser linewidth of several tens of MHz. High modulation efficiency of the VCSEL
allows us to create modulation sidebands at 9.2 GHz frequency via direct modulation of the laser injection current. Using
the carrier and either one of the sidebands coherent population trapping (CPT) resonances in a buffered cesium vapor can be
prepared with linewidths below 130 Hz. With this very compact setup we have studied the dependence of CPT resonance position
and linewidth as a function of optical detuning and find evidence of the influence of the excited state hyperfine structure.
Received: 30 April 1999 / Revised version: 25 June 1999 / Published online: 30 November 1999 |
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| Keywords: | PACS: 42 55 Px 42 50 Gy 32 70 Jz |
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