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Construction and Characterization of External Cavity Diode Lasers for Atomic Physics
Published on: April 24, 2014
Rubidium vapor laser pumped by two laser diode arrays
Boris V Zhdanov1, Adam Stooke, Gregory Boyadjian
1Department of Physics, US Air Force Academy, USAF Academy, CO, USA. boris.zhdanov.ctr@usafa.edu
Optics Letters
|March 4, 2008
Abstract:
Scaling of alkali lasers to higher powers requires using multiple diode lasers for pumping. The first (to our knowledge) results of a cw rubidium laser pumped by two laser diode arrays are presented. A slope efficiency of 53%, total optical efficiency of 46%, and output power of 17 W have been demonstrated.

