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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729176
