Abstract

The Lamb dip of the CO₂ saturation signal in an extracavity low-pressure CO₂–N₂ rf glow discharge is detected optogalvanically and used to stabilize the frequency of a CO₂ laser. The frequency stability is estimated to be better than 100 kHz.

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