Apparatus
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Apparatus:

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Here is (almost) the entire setup.  The Fabre Perrot Interferometer is just off the right of the image, along with some of the electronics.

 

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This is the path that the laser takes.  You can see the saturated absorption spectroscopy setup where the beams intersect in the RB Vapor Cell.

 

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This is the main detector setup.  The most important part are the two photodiodes, which detect separate beams (the probe and reference beam) only about 1 cm apart.   The difference of intensity of these two beams gives the saturated absorption spectrums shown in the results.

 

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This is the interferometer I used to calibrate my results.  The box in the background was a current to voltage converter I built for my photodiodes.

 

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This is the OCTDL setup.  The laser line width of the output is only about 30MHz, less than 10^-5 nm.