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Figure 3.16: Layout <strong>of</strong> the saturation absorption spectroscopy locking scheme<br />

used to control the frequency <strong>of</strong> the repump master laser.<br />

another and parallel. Both beams are directed through a Rb vapor cell. <strong>The</strong><br />

pump beam travels around the Rb vapor cell and then through it, overlapping<br />

the probe but not the reference beam. <strong>The</strong> probe and reference beams are<br />

each focused onto a fast photodiode, and the difference between the signals is<br />

monitored.<br />

<strong>The</strong> reason the differential photodiode is used becomes clear by consid-<br />

ering the intensity <strong>of</strong> the probe and reference beams as the frequency <strong>of</strong> the<br />

laser is slowly swept through resonance. <strong>The</strong> intensity <strong>of</strong> the reference beam<br />

will reflect the Doppler-broadened transition. <strong>The</strong> probe beam intensity will<br />

also have a Doppler-broadened background but will spike at transitions and<br />

cross-over resonances. By taking the difference <strong>of</strong> these signals we are able to<br />

extract the Doppler-free spectrum.<br />

To obtain a signal which can be locked to, the grating in the repump<br />

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