BARC/PUB/10//1078

 
 

Atomic frequency offset locking in a L type three-level Doppler broadened Cs system

 
     
 
Author(s)

Kale, Y. B.; Ray, A.; D'Souza, R.; Lawande, Q. V.; Jagatap, B. N.

ABSTRACT

We here present a comparative study of frequency stabilities of pump and probe lasers coupled at a frequency offset generated by coherent photon-atom interaction. Pump-probe spectroscopy of the Ù configuration in D2 transition of cesium is carried out to obtain sub-natural (~ 2 MHz) electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and sub-Doppler (~ 10 MHz) Autler-Townes (AT) resonance. The pump laser is locked on the saturated absorption spectrum (SAS, ~ 13 MHz) and the probe laser is successively stabilized on EIT and AT signals. Frequency stabilities of pump and probe lasers are calculated in terms of Allan variance s (2,t) by using the frequency noise power spectrum. It is found that the frequency stability of the probe stabilized on EIT is superior (s ~ 2x10-13)) to that of SAS locked pump laser (s ~ 10-12)), whereas the performance of the AT stabilized laser is inferior (s ~ 6x10-12)). This contrasting behavior is discussed in terms of the theme of conventional master-slave offset locking scheme and the mechanisms underlying the EIT and sub-Doppler AT resonances in a Doppler broadened atomic medium.

 
 
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