title: Cover slip external cavity diode laser.
abstract: A 671 nm diode laser with a mode-hop-free tuning range of 40 GHz is described. This long tuning range is achieved by simultaneously ramping the external cavity length with the laser injection current. The laser output pointing remains fixed, independent of its frequency because of the cover slip cavity design. This system is simple, economical, robust, and easy to use for spectroscopy, as we demonstrate with lithium vapor and lithium atom beam experiments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA.
authors.forename: Adra V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Carr
authors.forename: Yancey H
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Sechrest
authors.forename: Scott R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Waitukaitis
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Perreault
authors.forename: Vincent P A
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Lonij
authors.forename: Alexander D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Cronin
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007834:Lasers; D007909:Lenses; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012666:Semiconductors; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity