Re: Current Controller for Laser Diode
From: Rene Tschaggelar (none_at_none.net)
Date: 02/23/05
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:04:19 +0100
Ken Smith wrote:
> In article <421c566f$0$3408$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch>,
> Rene Tschaggelar <none@none.net> wrote:
> [....]
>
>>The hardware is fairly cheap.
>
> Define "fairly cheap". Looking at what you've listed below, it looks to
> me like the laser system will cost over $1000US. I was hoping you had
> come up with something that the group in the land down under had missed.
> It looks like you've suggest the same basic kit as them. I guess that is
> reasonable as it is most likely the best way to do it if you don't have
> the new vertical cavity technology. The one thing they stressed was the
> need for very good mechanical stability in all of the parts.
>
Well, an aspherical lens, a few squaremillimeters of AR coat,
a squarecentimeter of grating is doable for a couple of dollars,
it is the mounting and handling that is time consuming.
With some automation, in numbers, the price should come down.
Yes, the mechanical stability is important. Possibly thermally
stabilized. But a micro setup should be doable.
>
>>You need the laser diode of
>>yours, but on the backside, where usually the monitor is,
>>you need an antireflex coat. A lambda quarter of falcium
>>floride or such. Then you need some optics to expand the beam,
>>An achromat or a microscope lens. Having the beam widened up,
>>it goes as moreless parallel beam to a grating. 30$ or so
>>at Edmund Scientific. The grating retroreflects the wanted
>>wavelengths back. The selection of the wavelength is the angle
>>of the grating. This job is mainly mechanical, setting up
>>the lot on a sturdy plate, adjusting the angles, remove
>>hysteresis ...
>>Note that laser gain equation have now the lenses and the
>>grating in it as losses. This means the lens system should
>>accomodate for the large NA.
>>A longer laser cavity has less longitudinal modes and the
>>grating is selective amongst them.
>>
>>
>>>NIST is trying for a atomic clock that competes with the OCXOs. They've
>>>got quite a ways to go yet on the development.
>>
>>I read some articles about that. Considering that I get an OCXO
>>in less than half a cubic inch, running between 0 and 50degC, at
>>less than a watt, for 500$, that is quite a task.
>
> They seem to be inching towards actually doing it. The laser production
> yeld is still a bit of an issue. The vertical cavity laser has to run at
> the 894 line. Only a small cross sectioned ring of them on the wafer end
> up wanting to run there. The rest are either too high or too low. This
> is a silicon growing issue that they have to get a handle on.
>
> Running the light through the body of the cell twice by using a mirror on
> the far side solves one of the big mechanical issues by forcing the light
> to average to parallel. Switching to CPT turns the 9GHz from RF cavity to
> modulator issues.
>
> One of the folks who is working on this told me that he can see a
> production price of something like $100 in the future. There is nothing
> in the system that is by its nature expensive other than perhaps the laser
> its self.
Ah, they are locking to maximum/minimum absorption with
the 9GHz sidebands ? That is not that trivial. Nor
immediately to be made small. With some custon microwave
chips though...
Rene
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