A system to control and stabilize the output of visible laser diodes was developed and used to measure the velocity distribution of lithium atoms in a laser cooling experiment. Circuitry was designed and built for controlling the diode temperature and current, and optical feedback from a grating was used to further tune the laser and to narrow its lineshape. In the experiment, atoms from a thermal lithium beam were slowed to near zero velocity using a multi-frequency relay chirp technique.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:RICE/oai:scholarship.rice.edu:1911/13666 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Creators | Bradley, Curtis Charles |
| Contributors | Hulet, R. G. |
| Source Sets | Rice University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | 79 p., application/pdf |
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