Travamento da freqüência de um diodo laser nas asas da ressonância de uma linha atômica.

Abstract

In this work we demonstrate the experimental development of a system of frequency- locking of a diode laser on the wings of an atomic line. As an error signal, we use the transmission through a cell with parallel windows (containing cesium vapor) for the frequency-locking. We show that the error signalis stable for one hour and a half and has oscillations in the wings of the resonance that can be used tostabilize the frequency. We locked the frequency between 1860-2817 MHz out of resonance and obtained a stability of 30MHz. The described technique does not require a magnetic field or polarization-sensitive detection, whichs impli es substantially over existing techniques.