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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 29, Issue 16, Pages 25462-25476Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.429898
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- European Research Council [772126]
- Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
- Walter Ahlstrom Foundation
- Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion
- European Research Council (ERC) [772126] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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This study achieved the generation of high-power, narrow-linewidth laser radiation for laser cooling and spectroscopy of cadmium and strontium atoms. Utilizing VECSEL frequency doubling, laser outputs at 457.75nm and 460.86nm were successfully produced.
High-power and narrow-linewidth laser light is a vital tool for atomic physics, being used for example in laser cooling and trapping and precision spectroscopy. Here we produce Watt-level laser radiation at 457.75 nm and 460.86 nm of respective relevance for the cooling transitions of cadmium and strontium atoms. This is achieved via the frequency doubling of a kHz-linewidth vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL), which is based on a novel gain chip design enabling lasing at > 2 W in the 915-928 nm region. Following an additional doubling stage, spectroscopy of the S-1(0) -> P-1(1) cadmium transition at 228.87 nm is performed on an atomic beam, with all the transitions from all eight natural isotopes observed in a single continuous sweep of more than 4 GHz in the deep ultraviolet. The absolute value of the transition frequency of Cd-114 and the isotope shifts relative to this transition are determined, with values for some of these shifts provided for the first time. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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