Title :
Fiber Laser Mode Cleaning by Frequency Locking to a Fiber Ring Cavity
Author :
Chow, Jong H. ; Littler, Ian C M ; McClelland, David E. ; Gray, Malcolm B.
Author_Institution :
Center for Gravitational Phys., Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra, ACT
Abstract :
We use a passive, high Q, ring resonator as a mode cleaner to suppress laser intensity noise by actively frequency lock a fiber laser, enabling a stabilized output that approaches the shot noise limit over most of its spectrum.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser noise; shot noise; actively frequency lock; fiber laser mode cleaning; fiber ring cavity; frequency locking; laser intensity noise; mode cleaner; passive high Q ring resonator; shot noise limit; Cleaning; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser stability; Laser theory; Optical noise; Ring lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Internet, 2007 and the 2007 32nd Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. COIN-ACOFT 2007. Joint International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-0-9775657-3-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-9775657-3-3
DOI :
10.1109/COINACOFT.2007.4519199
