Offer, R., Conway, J., Riis, E., Franke-Arnold, S. and Arnold, A. (2016) Cavity-enhanced frequency up-conversion in rubidium vapor. Optics Letters, 41(10), pp. 2177-2180. (doi: 10.1364/OL.41.002177)
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Abstract
We report the first use of a ring cavity to both enhance the output power and dramatically narrow the linewidth (<1 MHz) of blue light generated by four-wave mixing in a rubidium vapor cell. We find that the high output power available in our cavity-free system leads to power broadening of the generated blue light linewidth. Our ring cavity removes this limitation, allowing high output power and narrow linewidth to be achieved concurrently. As the cavity blue light is widely tunable over the 85Rb 5S1∕2F 3 → 6P3∕2 transition, this narrow linewidth light would be suitable for near-resonant rubidium studies including, for example, second-stage laser cooling.
| Item Type: | Articles (Letter) |
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| Keywords: | Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing, coherent optical effects, optical resonators. |
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Franke-Arnold, Professor Sonja |
| Authors: | Offer, R., Conway, J., Riis, E., Franke-Arnold, S., and Arnold, A. |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy |
| Research Group: | Optics |
| Journal Name: | Optics Letters |
| Journal Abbr.: | Opt Lett |
| Publisher: | Optical Society of America |
| ISSN: | 0146-9592 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1539-4794 |
| Published Online: | 07 April 2016 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2016 Optical Society of America |
| First Published: | First published in Optics Letters 41(10): 2177-2180 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy |
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