A compact injection-locked Nd:YAG laser for gravitational wavedetection

摘要

We have designed and characterized a diode-pumped injection-lockednNd:YAG laser suitable for precision metrology. The laser uses a simplenside-pumped laser architecture and is compact, efficient, stable, andnscalable. The frequency stability of the injection-locked slave laser isnshown to be limited by the monolithic master oscillator and itsnintensity noise is 4×10-6 Hz-1/2 at 1 kHz