학술논문

Noise in an FM-Converted Self-Mixing Interferometer
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on. 69(7):5100-5106 Jul, 2020
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Frequency modulation
Surface emitting lasers
Optical interferometry
Optical feedback
Laser modes
Laser feedback
Measurements
noise measurements
optical feedback
optical interferometers
semiconductor laser diodes (LDs)
Language
ISSN
0018-9456
1557-9662
Abstract
We measure the noise of the converted frequency-modulated (cFM) signal in a self-mixing interferometer (SMI) and confirm the theoretical prediction of a dependence of rms noise from ( $1+ C)^{-1}$ , where $C$ is the Acket feedback factor, up to a high value (i.e., $C=30$ ) in region III of Tkach and Chraplyvy feedback diagram. We also verify the minor dependence of noise from the phase factor 2 ks + atan $\alpha $ . Finally, we show that the cFM SMI easily attains an unprecedented limit of small-signal detection, with amplitudes down to 0.25 pm/ $\surd $ Hz.