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Frequency stabilization of a single-frequency volume Bragg grating-based short-cavity Tm:Ho:YLF laser to a CO2 line at 2.06 μm

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This study presents a 2.06 μm single-frequency tunable volume Bragg grating (VBG)-based short-cavity Tm:Ho:YLF laser. A mode-hop-free tuning range of 10 GHz at a few hundred mW output power was achieved. The first-derivative spectrum of the CO2 20013←00001 R(4) absorption line with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 1,000/Hz1/2 was obtained using frequency modulation and fluorescence detection. The laser frequency can be stabilized to the CO2 line with a stability of 3 × 10−9.

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This work is supported by the National Science Council and the Ministry of Education of Taiwan, ROC.

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  1. Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan

    Pei-Ling Luo & Jow-Tsong Shy

  2. Graduate Institute of Energy Engineering, National Central University, Chung-Li, 32001, Taiwan

    Chien-Cheng Kuo

  3. Department of Optics and Photonics, National Central University, Chung-Li, 32001, Taiwan

    Cheng-Chung Lee

  4. Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan

    Jow-Tsong Shy

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Luo, PL., Kuo, CC., Lee, CC. et al. Frequency stabilization of a single-frequency volume Bragg grating-based short-cavity Tm:Ho:YLF laser to a CO2 line at 2.06 μm. Appl. Phys. B 109, 327–331 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-012-5159-6

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