The AWL lasers are centered at 780 nm for the D2 lines of rubidium with a tuning range >9.5 GHz and produce more than 5 mW of fiber-coupled light output. Future models will address the D1 lines at 795 nm as well as either the D2 or D1 lines of cesium at 852 and 895 nm, respectively. The master source is referenced to an atomic rubidium transition for absolute accuracy of better than 100 kHz over a 1 s time period. Furthermore, the AWL integrated control electronics (ICE) module shrinks the typically thousands of cubic inches needed for other laser-control platforms to a board-level package with a volume of less than 50 cubic in. Meeting or exceeding the performance parameters of larger lasers, AWL devices cool or probe rubidium atoms and allow manufacturers and scientists to deploy stable optical reference frequencies and cold atoms in true field conditions for applications in gravimetry, magnetometry, GPS-denied navigation, high-speed communications, quantum computing, and cryptography. The AWL systems also provide sufficient fiber-coupled power to seed an optical amplifier for higher-power applications. Contact Michael Radunsky at [email protected].
Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)
Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.