A simple and low-cost setup for part per billion level frequency stabilization and characterization of red He-Ne laser

This work describes the frequency stabilization of a dual longitudinal mode, red (632.8 nm) He-Ne laser, implemented using an open source low-cost microcontroller (Arduino Uno) and its performance characterization using a simple interferometric method. Our studies demonstrate that frequency stability up to 0.42 MHz (3r, 17 h) can be achieved using this setup. This simple and low-cost system can serve as an excellent part per billion level fre-quency reference for high-resolution spectroscopy based applications.& COPY; 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).