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<strong>The</strong> holder is placed into a bronze mounting block. Below the mounting block<br />

is a TEC, which is used to control the temperature <strong>of</strong> the laser diode in con-<br />

junction with a thermistor and temperature controller, see Fig. 3.11. <strong>The</strong><br />

injection current into each diode is controlled with a PID loop identical to<br />

aluminum<br />

housing<br />

Brewster<br />

window<br />

diode in<br />

coll. tube<br />

and<br />

bronze holder<br />

mounting<br />

block<br />

Figure 3.11: A slave laser used in the experiment to generate sufficient resonant<br />

light. <strong>The</strong> left image shows the laser with its aluminum housing in place. <strong>The</strong><br />

right image is taken without the aluminum housing, revealing the laser diode<br />

and mounting block.<br />

that used in the MOT master laser.<br />

Injection locking is accomplished by seeding the free-running diode<br />

lasers with a weak beam spatially matched to the diode laser output. We<br />

seed a small amount <strong>of</strong> light (∼ 2 mW) from the MOT master laser beam into<br />

each slave laser. This is done by using the optical isolators (ConOptics: 713B)<br />

placed after each slave laser. <strong>The</strong> seed light is sent into the rejection port <strong>of</strong><br />

each optical isolator collinear to the rejected portion <strong>of</strong> the beam from the<br />

slave lasers as shown in Fig. 3.12. Because optical isolators utilize Faraday<br />

rotation to work, they rotate the polarization <strong>of</strong> light passing though them<br />

in the same direction regardless <strong>of</strong> the direction <strong>of</strong> travel. <strong>The</strong>refore the seed<br />

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