External cavity tunable lasers have been around for many years and now constitute a large
group of semiconductor lasers featuring very unique properties. The present review has …

Spectroscopy using tunable diode lasers is an area of research that has gone through a
dramatic evolution over the last few years, principally because of new exciting approaches …

This is the first book on tunable external cavity semiconductor diode lasers, providing an up-
to-date survey on the physics, technology, and performance of widely applicable coherent …

Mode stability is an important performance characteristic of external cavity diode lasers
(ECDLs). It has been well established that the continuous mode-hop-free tuning range of a …

Laser cooling and trapping are central to modern atomic physics. It has been roughly three
decades since laser cooling techniques produced ultracold atoms, leading to rapid …

We present difference-frequency stabilization of free-running distributed-feedback (DFB)
diode lasers, maintaining a stable phase-lock to a local oscillator (LO) signal. The technique …

We present a new approach for extended-cavity diode-laser tuning to achieve wide mode-
hop-free tuning ranges. By using a multiple piezoactuated grating mount, the cavity length …

We present an effective method to extend the mode-hop-free (MHF) tuning range of an
external-cavity diode laser (ECDL) by synchronous tuning of the longitudinal modes of the …

The continuous tuning range of an external-cavity diode laser can be extended by making
small corrections to the external-cavity length through an electronic feedback loop so that …

We have demonstrated in an ytterbium laser cooling and trapping experiment a high-power
violet extended-cavity diode laser (ECDL) stabilized to the Yb resonant transition at 398.9 …