Efficient pumping of Rb vapor by high-power volume Bragg diode laser

    Authors

    A. Gourevitch; G. Venus; V. Smirnov;L. Glebov

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    CONTINUOUS-WAVE; ARRAY; REDUCTION; FEEDBACK; Optics

    Abstract

    A 2 W cw laser diode (LD) with an external cavity produced by a reflecting volume Bragg grating (VBG) demonstrated a spectral width of 7 GHz (full width at half-maximum) at 780 nm. The device output power exceeded 90% of the output power of the free-running LD. The emission wavelength was tuned over a 300 pm range by thermal control of the VBG. Rb vapor was shown to absorb more than 95% of the laser radiation. (c) 2007 Optical Society of America.

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    32

    Issue/Number

    17

    Publication Date

    1-1-2007

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    2611

    Last Page

    2613

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000249908000050

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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