An injection-locking diode laser at 671 nm with a wide tuning range up to 6 GHz

Abstract

We present a compact injection-locking diode laser module to generate 671 nm laser light with a high output power up to 150 mW. The module adopts a master–slave injection-locking scheme, and the injection-locking state is monitored using the transmission spectrum from a Fabry–Pérot interferometer. Beat frequency spectrum measurement shows that the injection-locked slave laser has no other frequency components within the 150-MHz detection bandwidth. It is found that without additional electronic feedback, the slave laser can follow the master laser over a wide range of 6 GHz. All the elements of the module are commercially available, which favors fast construction of a complete 671-nm laser system for the preparation of cold 6Li atoms with only one research-grade diode laser as the seeding source.