Fully digital frequency stabilization of IR fiber-coupled laser

We present a stabilized semiconductor laser system designed to operate as a fiber-optic front-end master oscillator of a pulsed high-power iodine laser Prague Asterix Laser System (PALS). The replacement of the PALS master oscillator is a part of a broader effort to rebuild PALS into a laser generat...

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Published in:Review of scientific instruments 2006-06, Vol.77 (6), p.063111-063111-5
Main Authors: Jedlička, Petr, Lazar, Josef, Číp, Ondřej
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:We present a stabilized semiconductor laser system designed to operate as a fiber-optic front-end master oscillator of a pulsed high-power iodine laser Prague Asterix Laser System (PALS). The replacement of the PALS master oscillator is a part of a broader effort to rebuild PALS into a laser generating shorter pulses with higher pulse power by the technique of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification. With an operating wavelength of 1315.15 nm the stabilized laser master oscillator is based on a telecommunication single-frequency distributed feedback diode. The frequency stabilization is derived from transitions in thermally dissociated iodine. Locking to the selected transition is fully automatic and the control system employs a unique combination of control loops derived from temperature and absorption to overcome the problem of narrow locking range of a single absorption line.
ISSN:0034-6748
1089-7623
DOI:10.1063/1.2209971