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We present a scheme for employing a violet extended-cavity diode laser in experiments with single, trapped ions. For this the grating-stabilised laser is spatially and spectrally filtered and referenced to a Fabry–Pérot cavity. We measure an upper limit to the line width by observing a 305-kHz FWHM beat note with the second harmonic of a titanium sapphire laser. The laser is subsequently used to optically cool a single 40Ca+ ion close to the Doppler limit.
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Lancaster, G., Häffner, H., Wilson, M. et al. Doppler cooling a single Ca+ ion with a violet extended-cavity diode laser. Appl. Phys. B 76, 805–808 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-003-1223-6
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