• DocumentCode
    2053147
  • Title

    Passive filtering of fiber laser intensity noise by active frequency locking to a fiber resonators

  • Author

    Chow, Jong H. ; Littler, Ian C M ; McClelland, David E. ; Gray, Malcolm B.

  • Author_Institution
    Australian National University, Department of Physics, Building 38, Faculty of Science, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate passive filtering of laser relative intensity noise by active frequency locking a laser to a cavity, thereby producing a shot-noise limited optical source suitable for quantum cryptographic communications.
  • Keywords
    Active noise reduction; Fiber lasers; Filtering; Frequency; Laser noise; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber filters; Optical noise; Passive filters; Resonator filters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Brussels, Belgium
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2227-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2228-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729176
  • Filename
    4729176