IP Library Granted Patent US 12680871
Granted Patent B2
US 12680871 · App. 19/294,233 · Granted Jul 14, 2026

Methods and devices of 425NM wavelength reference construction based on fluorescence-induced effect

Inventors: Xinbin Cheng (Shanghai, CN); Xiao Deng (Shanghai, CN); Cong Yin (Beijing, CN); Jianbo Wang (Beijing, CN); Tongbao Li (Shanghai, CN); Tong Zhou (Shanghai, CN); Dongbai Xue (Shanghai, CN); Guangxu Xiao (Shanghai, CN); Junyu Shen (Shanghai, CN); Zhijun Yin (Shanghai, CN)
Assignees: TONGJI UNIVERSITY; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROLOGY, CHINA
G01J3/28G01R23/145G02F1/3503G02F1/3551G02F1/3558G02F1/37G01J2003/2866G01J2003/2873G02F2202/20
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Patent No.
US 12680871
App. No.
19/294,233
Granted
Jul 14, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method and a device of a 425 nm wavelength reference construction based on fluorescence-induced effect. The method comprises: a continuously tunable laser, an atomic furnace, a chromium atomic beam, an optical frequency comb, a frequency doubling optical path, a bias-preserving fiber beam splitter, a bias-preserving fiber beam combiner, a beat-frequency detection optical path, an optoelectronic receiver, and a frequency counter atomic furnace.

Claims (28)

1 . A device of a 425 nm wavelength reference construction based on fluorescence-induced effect, comprises: a continuously tunable laser, an atomic furnace, a chromium atomic beam, an optical frequency comb, a frequency doubling optical path, a bias-preserving fiber beam splitter, a bias-preserving fiber beam combiner, a beat-frequency detection optical path, an optoelectronic receiver, and a frequency counter; wherein

an output end of the continuously tunable laser is provided with a first half-wave plate, a first coupler, and the bias-preserving fiber beam splitter arranged in order;

the output end of the continuously tunable laser is connected to an input end of the bias-preserving fiber beam splitter;

an output end of the optical frequency comb is connected to the frequency doubling optical path;

the frequency doubling optical path and a first output end of the bias-preserving fiber beam splitter are connected to an input end of the bias-preserving fiber beam combiner, respectively;

the chromium atomic beam is emitted through the atomic furnace and interacts with a second output end of the bias-preserving fiber beam splitter;

an output end of the bias-preserving fiber beam combiner is connected to an input end of the beat-frequency detection optical path;

an output end of the beat-frequency detection optical path is connected to an input end of the frequency counter through the optoelectronic receiver;

the beat-frequency detection optical path includes a second collimator, a second reflector, a third half-wave plate, a polarized beam splitter cube, a third reflector, and a diffraction grating;

wherein the second reflector and the third reflector are placed in parallel;

the output end of the bias-preserving fiber beam combiner is connected to an input end of the optoelectronic receiver after passing the second collimator, the second reflector, the third half-wave plate, the polarized beam splitter cube, the third reflector, and the diffraction grating in sequence;

the 425 nm wavelength reference construction is realized based on the device by a method for constructing a 425 nm wavelength reference based on the sensible fluorescence effect, the method comprising:

S1, constructing a frequency measurement system of a laser and the optical frequency comb based on a technique of heterodyne beat frequency detection;

S2, setting a temperature of the atomic furnace to a state of leakage generation of the chromium atomic beam, initially adjusting a laser wavelength near a theoretical value of a transition ( 7 S 3 - 7 P 4 ) frequency of the chromium atoms, and a set of opposite-direction propagating lasers interacting with the chromium atomic beam and symmetrically sensitizing two fluorescent spots on both sides of a central axis of the chromium atomic beam; and

S3, finely adjusting the laser wavelength so that the two fluorescent spots symmetrically sensitized on both sides of the central axis of the chromium atomic beam, at which time a laser frequency is equal to the transition ( 7 S 3 - 7 P 4 ) frequency of the chromium atoms, and performing a measurement of the transition ( 7 S 3 - 7 P 4 ) frequency of the chromium atoms.

2 . The device according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency doubling optical path includes a filter, a second half-wave plate, a first convex lens, a frequency doubling crystal PPLN, a second convex lens, and a second coupler;

the output end of the optical frequency comb is connected to an input end of the filter;

an output end of the filter is connected to an input end of the second half-wave plate;

an output end of the second half-wave plate is connected to an input end of the frequency doubling crystal PPLN;

a first convex lens and a second convex lens are provided at each end of the frequency doubling crystal PPLN, respectively, the first convex lens and the second convex lens are configured to focus a beam within the frequency doubling crystal PPLN.

3 . The device according to claim 2 , wherein an output wavelength band of the continuously tunable laser covers 425.5±1.0 nm, and a frequency tuning module is provided at an input end of the continuously tunable laser;

a reference source of the optical frequency comb is a high-stability time-frequency signal, and an output wavelength band of the optical frequency comb covers 851±2 nm, and an output wavelength band covers 425.5±1.0 nm after passing through the frequency doubling crystal PPLN of the frequency doubling optical path.

4 . The device according to claim 1 , wherein the atomic furnace heats chromium powder to a sublimated state under a vacuum and inducing the chromium atomic beam by a drain means;

the second output end of the bias-preserving fiber beam splitter forms the set of opposite-direction propagating lasers through a first collimator via a first reflector, the lasers interact with collimated chromium atomic beam, sensing the two fluorescent spots, and using a coincidence of the two fluorescent spots as a basis for determining that the laser frequency is equal to the transition ( 7 S 3 - 7 P 4 ) frequency of the chromium (Cr) atoms.

5 . The device according to claim 4 , wherein a direction of propagation of the chromium atomic beam is perpendicular to a direction of propagation of the set of opposite-direction propagating lasers formed at the second output end of the bias-preserving fiber beam splitter through the first reflector.

6 . The device according to claim 1 , wherein an effusion temperature of the chromium atomic beam emitted from the atomic furnace is in a range of 1500-1750 degrees Celsius.

7 . The device according to claim 1 , wherein the atomic furnace achieves a collimation of the chromium atomic beam by a slit or a transverse laser light field.

8 . The device according to claim 1 , wherein a low-pass filter is provided between the optoelectronic receiver and the frequency counter.