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Spectroscopy and laser cooling on the \({}^{1}S_{0}\)–\(\,^{3}P_{1}\) line in Yb via an injection-locked diode laser at 1,111.6 nm

Injection locking for the yellow–green spectrum

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We generate 555.8-nm light with sub-MHz linewidth through the use of laser injection locking of a semiconductor diode at 1,111.6 nm, followed by frequency doubling in a resonant cavity. The integrity of the injection lock is investigated by studying an offset beat signal between slave and master lasers, by performing spectroscopy on the \((6s)^{2}\, {}^{1}S_{0}\hbox{--}(6s6p)\,{}^{3}P_{1}\) transition in magneto-optically trapped ytterbium, and by demonstrating additional laser cooling of \({}^{171}\hbox {Yb}\) with the 555.8-nm light in a dual-wavelength magneto-optical trap (MOT). For the \({}^{1}S_{0}\)–\(\,^{3}P_{1}\) spectroscopy, we confirm the linear dependence between ground-state linewidth and the intensity of an off-resonant laser, namely that used to cool Yb atoms in a \({}^{1}S_{0}\)–\(\,^{1}P_{1}\) magneto-optical trap. A temperature of 60 μK is produced for \({}^{171}\hbox {Yb}\) in the dual-wavelength MOT. Our results demonstrate the suitability of injection-locked 1,100–1,130-nm laser diodes as a source for sub-MHz linewidth radiation in the yellow–green spectrum.

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  1. With the 555.8-nm light polarized orthogonally to the Zeeman slower \(B\)-field we observe splitting of the \({}^{3}P_{1}\) sub-states and so can verify the \(B\)-field strength of the Zeeman slower.

  2. To be consistent with Doppler cooling theory the frequency detuning is required to be \({\sim}\,-2.5\,\Gamma _{556}\).

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (LE110100054). J.M. is supported through an ARC Future Fellowship (FT110100392) and N.K. through a Prescott Postgraduate Scholarship, UWA. We are gracious to Gary Light and Steve Osborne of the UWA Physics workshop for their technical expertise. We thank members of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems for their assistance, and S. Parker and E. Ivanov for the use of equipment.

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Kostylev, N., Locke, C.R., Tobar, M.E. et al. Spectroscopy and laser cooling on the \({}^{1}S_{0}\)–\(\,^{3}P_{1}\) line in Yb via an injection-locked diode laser at 1,111.6 nm. Appl. Phys. B 118, 517–525 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-015-6018-z

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