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Author(s) |
Kale, Y. B.; Ray, A.; D'Souza, R.; Lawande, Q. V.; Jagatap, B. N. |
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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
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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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