Comments and Corrections Comments on “Frequency Response of the Noise Conversion From Relative Intensity Noise to Phase Noise in the Photodetection of an Optical Pulse Train”

Author

Duy-Ha Phung ; Lintz, Michel

Author_Institution

Obs. de la Cote d´Azur, Univ. of Nice Sophia, Nice, France

Volume

26

Issue

19

fYear

2014

fDate

Oct.1, 1 2014

Firstpage

1994

Lastpage

1995

Abstract

It is shown that the results presented in the above letter, and attributed by the authors to amplitude-to-phase conversion in the photodetector, do not originate in the photodetector under test, due to the power dependence observed. More recent results show that conversion effects with the same size and frequency dependence are observed in passively mode-locked nonlinear polarization rotation mode-locked lasers.

Keywords

laser beams; laser mode locking; laser noise; laser variables measurement; light polarisation; optical rotation; phase noise; photodetectors; amplitude-to-phase conversion; conversion effects; frequency dependence; frequency response; noise conversion; optical pulse train photodetection; passively mode-locked nonlinear polarization rotation mode-locked lasers; phase noise; photodetector; power dependence; relative intensity noise; size dependence; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Optical attenuators; Optical pulses; Phase noise; Phase measurement; mode-locked lasers; phase noise; photodetectors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2014.2310814

Filename

6762867