A shot-noise limited fiber laser source by cascaded passive optical filtering

Thanh T.H. Nguyen; Jong H. Chow; Conor M. Mow-Lowry; Malcolm B. Gray; David E. McClelland

doi:10.1109/JQE.2010.2043217

A shot-noise limited fiber laser source by cascaded passive optical filtering

Thanh T.H. Nguyen, Jong H. Chow, Conor M. Mow-Lowry, Malcolm B. Gray, David E. McClelland

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We present a technique for suppressing relative intensity noise in a fiber laser, which uses two PoundDreverHall feedback control loops to lock two optical fiber ring resonators in series. The resonators act as cascaded passive optical filters to remove high frequency intensity noise. We describe and discuss the control scheme for holding the cavities on resonance, and present the experimental result, demonstrating shot noise limited performance for intensity fluctuations above 2.5 MHz.

Original language	English
Article number	5429004
Pages (from-to)	976-980
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
Volume	46
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2010.2043217
Publication status	Published - 2010

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