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Appendix D. External modulators and injection current modulation
former. Primary and secondary were wound with 10 turns of PVC-
insulated hookup wire around a ferrite bead approximately 15 mm
diameter. A 500 Ω potentiometer allows control of the modulation
amplitude, and a 9 V battery and 100 kΩ potentiometer provide a
DC
shift to set the centre modulator frequency. The latter allows
frequency offset control of the modulated light beam.
D.2
Injection current modulation
The
MOG
labs
DLC
can dither the laser diode injection current (set
by
DIP
switch
3
), at the standard 250 kHz, or with high frequency
modulation (e.g. 10 MHz) via the
SMA RF
input on the laser head-
board. Very narrow linewidths can be achieved with suitably high
bandwidth frequency discrimination, for example by phase locking
two lasers. The diagram below shows an arrangement to lock two
lasers to an EIT (electromagnetically induced transparency) reso-
nance, which obtained a beatnote linewidth below 1 kHz [10].
Photodiode
Phase
shifter
Lowpass
2.5MHz
10MHz
Probe
laser
PBS
λ
/2
Mixer
µ
-metal
Rb vapor cell
Fiber
Amplifier
X
Error
signal
I
ac
Coupling
laser
Microwave
beatnote
Saturated
absorption
spectroscopy
Phase
lead
Photodiode
+
Figure D.2:
High bandwidth locking based on FM sideband demodula-
tion [11, 6]. The probe laser is locked with high bandwidth, relative to
the coupling laser, using electromagnetically induced transparency as a
dispersive reference.
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