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A direct diode pumped Ti:sapphire laser with single-frequency operation for high resolution spectroscopy

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A direct diode pumped continuous-wave Ti:sapphire laser (DDPTS) is presented. A bow-tie geometry with optical diode is chosen for unidirectional single-mode operation. Frequency selection is performed with a standard combination of birefringent filter and etalon. To accomplish mode-hop free frequency tuning the piezo-driven etalon is stabilized to one of the cavity modes via dither-locking method. To suppress environmental fluctuations the cavity-mode is additionally locked to an external optical cavity with low frequency drift. Feasibility of the setup for high-resolution spectroscopy is demonstrated by saturated absorption spectroscopy of the D2 line of Rubidium.

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This work was partially supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 19H05584, the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) SENTAN Grant Number JPMJSN16B2, JST PRESTO and Tatematsu foundation.

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  1. Department of Energy Engineering, University of Nagoya, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi-ken, 464-8603, Japan

    Volker Sonnenschein, Hideki Tomita, Kato Kotaro, Hattori Koya, Ryohei Terabayashi & Tetsuo Iguchi

  2. Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 55099, Mainz, Germany

    Dominik Studer, Felix Weber & Klaus Wendt

  3. Department of Electronics, University of Nagoya, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8603, Aichi-ken, Japan

    Norihiko Nishizawa

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Sonnenschein, V., Tomita, H., Kotaro, K. et al. A direct diode pumped Ti:sapphire laser with single-frequency operation for high resolution spectroscopy. Hyperfine Interact 241, 32 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-020-1706-4

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