A visible extended cavity diode laser for the undergraduate laboratory

RS Conroy; A Carleton; A Carruthers; Bruce David Sinclair; CF Rae; Kishan Dholakia

A visible extended cavity diode laser for the undergraduate laboratory

RS Conroy, A Carleton, A Carruthers, Bruce David Sinclair, CF Rae, Kishan Dholakia

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We demonstrate how to construct a simple single-frequency extended cavity diode laser (ECDL) for the undergraduate laboratory using mainly standard opto-mechanical components. This ECDL is operated with both 635 and 670 nm laser diodes. We present three experiments that can be performed using this ECDL, namely spectroscopic studies of iodine, second harmonic generation, and an optical heterodyne experiment using the ECDL with a helium-neon laser. (C) 2000 American Association of Physics Teachers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	925-932
Number of pages	7
Journal	American Journal of Physics
Volume	68
Issue number	10
Publication status	Published - Oct 2000

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