LINEWIDTH AND FREQUENCY JITTER MEASUREMENT OF AN ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER RING LASER BY USING A LOSS-COMPENSATED, DELAYED SELF-HETERODYNE INTERFEROMETER

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作者
PARK, N
DAWSON, JW
VAHALA, KJ
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[1] Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125
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10.1364/OL.17.001274
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The single-mode line width of erbium-doped, single-frequency, fiber ring laser has been measured by using a newly developed loss-compensated delayed self-heterodyne interferometer that has a resolution of less than 600 Hz. The natural linewidth is determined to have an upper bound of less than 2 kHz. In addition, frequency jitter was found to be dominant over the natural linewidth, yielding an effective linewidth of approximately 4 kHz.
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