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Optical Engineering

Quasicontinuous wave linearly polarized rubidium vapor laser pumped by a 5-bar laser diode stack

Zhiyong Li, Rongqing Tan, Wei Huang, Dandan Zhang

Published Nov 21, 2014• 5 citations
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Abstract

We report a quasicontinuous wave (CW) linearly polarized rubidium vapor laser. The pumping source consists of five laser diode bars and its linewidth is reduced from the raw 1.8 to 0.2 nm by a bulk volume Bragg grating. Instead of adopting the “quasi-waveguide structure” gain cell, the pumping light of the rubidium vapor laser propagates freely in the vapor cell. The pumping light with polarization perpendicular to one of the rubidium laser is coupled into the resonator cavity by the polarized beam splitter. This laser configuration is suitable for a convection-cooling diode-pumped alkali vapor laser.

DOI
10.1117/1.oe.53.11.116113

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