Shot Noise limited fiber laser source for sensing applications

Date

2008

Authors

Chow, Jong
Lam, Timothy
Littler, Ian
McClelland, David
Gray, Malcolm

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SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Abstract

We propose active feedback frequency locking of a single longitudinal mode fiber laser to passive, high Q fiber ring cavities, for filtering excess relative intensity noise, thereby producing shot-noise limited light source for sensing applications.

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Keywords: Computer networks; Detectors; Fiber lasers; Fiber optics; Filtration; Laser mode locking; Lasers; Light; Light sources; Lighting; Optical fibers; Optical materials; Optical sensors; Pulsed laser deposition; Sensors; Active feedback; Fiber laser source; Fi Fiber laser; Fiber resonator; Frequency locking; Intensity stabilization; Passive optical filtering; Shot noise limit

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Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7004

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Conference paper

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