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Optics Letters

High-performance iodine fiber frequency standard

Anna Lurie, Fred N. Baynes, James D. Anstie, P. S. Light, Fetah Benabid, Thomas M. Stace, Andre Nicholas Luiten

Published Dec 14, 2011• 18 citations
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Abstract

We have constructed a compact and robust optical frequency standard based around iodine vapor loaded into the core of a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF). A 532 nm laser was frequency locked to one hyperfine component of the R(56) 32-0 (127)I(2) transition using modulation transfer spectroscopy. The stabilized laser demonstrated a frequency stability of 2.3×10(-12) at 1 s, almost an order of magnitude better than previously reported for a laser stabilized to a gas-filled HC-PCF. This limit is set by the shot noise in the detection system. We present a discussion of the current limitations to the performance and a route to improve the performance by more than an order of magnitude.

DOI
10.1364/ol.36.004776

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