To stabilize the frequency-difference of the two-cavity dual-frequency Nd:YAG laser at 1064 nm, a quadrature-demodulated Pound–Drever–Hall (QD-PDH) frequency-difference stabilizing system has been designed, which is composed of two sets of QD-PDH frequency stabilizing subsystems sharing the same Fabry–Perot cavity as the frequency reference. Both phase modulators are driven by the signals with the same frequency of 10 MHz generated by a single direct digital synthesizer (DDS), and the DDS also outputs the other two orthogonal signals as the demodulation reference signals of both frequency stabilizing subsystems. A QD-PDH frequency-difference stabilizing system for a two-cavity dual-frequency Nd:YAG laser with a frequency-difference of ∼24 GHz at 1064 nm has been established and investigated experimentally. The experimental results have indicated that during a period of 1 h, the laser frequency stabilities of the linear and right-angle cavities are estimated by Allan variance to be better than 2.3 × 10 − 11 and 2.7 × 10 − 11, respectively, corresponding to frequency-difference stability of better than 4.2 × 10 − 7. Such a frequency-difference-stabilized two-cavity dual-frequency Nd:YAG laser can be used as an ideal light source for the synthetic-wave absolute-distance interferometric system. |
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Nd:YAG lasers
Laser stabilization
Ferroelectric materials
Signal detection
Crystals
Digital signal processing
Signal processing