Simple iodine reference at 1064 nm for absolute laser frequency determination in space applications

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作者
Kokuyama, Wataru [1 ]
Numata, Kenji [2 ,3 ]
Camp, Jordan [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[2] Univ Maryland, Dept Astron, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[3] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
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INTERFEROMETRY;
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10.1364/AO.49.006264
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Using an iodine cell with fixed gas pressure, we built a simple frequency reference at 1064 nm with 10 MHz absolute accuracy and used it to demonstrate deterministic phase locking between two single-frequency lasers. The reference was designed to be as simple as possible, and it does not use a cooler or frequency modulator. This system should be useful, especially for space interferometric missions such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. (C) 2010 Optical Society of America
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页码:6264 / 6267
页数:4
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