title: Efficient pumping of Rb vapor by high-power volume Bragg diode laser.
abstract: A 2W cw laser diode (LD) with an external cavity produced by a reflecting volume Bragg grating (VBG) demonstrated a spectral width of 7GHz (full width at half-maximum) at 780nm. The device output power exceeded 90% of the output power of the free-running LD. The emission wavelength was tuned over a 300pm range by thermal control of the VBG. Rb vapor was shown to absorb more than 95% of the laser radiation.
authors.affiliation: CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, P.O. Box 162700, Orlando, Florida 32816-2700, USA. agourevi@creol.ucf.edu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gourevitch
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Venus
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Smirnov
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Glebov