{"title":"Tilt locking: a new technique for locking a laser to an optical cavity","authors":"D. Shaddock, M. Gray, B. Slagmolen, D. McClelland","doi":"10.1109/CLEOE.2000.910336","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given. Tilt locking is a simple technique providing an error signal for locking a laser to a Fabry-Perot cavity. This technique, utilizes a misalignment of the laser with respect to the cavity to produce a non-resonant spatial mode. By observing the interference between the carrier and the spatial mode on a two element photodiode, a high sensitivity frequency discriminator can be obtained. Tilt locking offers a number of potential benefits over existing locking schemes including low cost, high sensitivity and simple implementation. We present recent results for locking two Nd:YAG lasers to a single cavity.","PeriodicalId":250878,"journal":{"name":"Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (Cat. No.00TH8505)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (Cat. No.00TH8505)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE.2000.910336","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Summary form only given. Tilt locking is a simple technique providing an error signal for locking a laser to a Fabry-Perot cavity. This technique, utilizes a misalignment of the laser with respect to the cavity to produce a non-resonant spatial mode. By observing the interference between the carrier and the spatial mode on a two element photodiode, a high sensitivity frequency discriminator can be obtained. Tilt locking offers a number of potential benefits over existing locking schemes including low cost, high sensitivity and simple implementation. We present recent results for locking two Nd:YAG lasers to a single cavity.