Title :
Photon statistics of a single mode of amplified spontaneous emission noise in an erbium-doped fiber amplifier
Author :
Voss, Paul ; Vasilyev, Michael ; Levandovsky, Dmitry ; Noh, Tae-Gon ; Kumar, Prem
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA
Abstract :
The recently developed method of optical homodyne tomography (OHT) allows one to obtain the photon statistics of a single mode with single-photon resolution. Recently, we used OHT to prove the Bose Einstein distribution (BED) character of parametric fluorescence. In general, in an OHT setup, a weak signal beam is mixed on a 50/50 beamsplitter with a strong local oscillator beam of the same polarization and spatio-temporal mode. In this paper, we apply OHT to show, we believe for the first time, that ASE noise of a single mode in an EDFA is Bose-Einstein distributed
Keywords :
Bose-Einstein condensation; erbium; laser modes; laser noise; optical beam splitters; optical fibre amplifiers; optical tomography; statistical analysis; superradiance; 50/50 beamsplitter; ASE noise; Bose Einstein distribution; Bose-Einstein distributed; EDFA; amplified spontaneous emission noise; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; optical homodyne tomography; parametric fluorescence; photon statistics; single mode; single-photon resolution; spatio-temporal mode; strong local oscillator beam; weak signal beam; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fluorescence; Local oscillators; Nonlinear optics; Parametric statistics; Polarization; Signal resolution; Single photon emission computed tomography; Statistical distributions; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5634-9
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1999.811944
