학술논문

Highly stable low-noise Brillouin fiber laser with ultranarrow spectral linewidth
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE. 18(17):1813-1815 Sep, 2006
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Fiber lasers
Laser stability
Laser noise
Pump lasers
Noise reduction
Ring lasers
Frequency
Power lasers
Laser excitation
Erbium-doped fiber lasers
Brillouin scattering
fiber laser
frequency noise
intensity noise
laser linewidth
stabilization
Language
ISSN
1041-1135
1941-0174
Abstract
We demonstrate an all-fiber high-power single-frequency Brillouin fiber ring laser with maximum power of 100 mW at 1.55 μm, which is actively stabilized by using the Pound-Drever-Hall frequency-locking scheme. Significant reduction (/spl sim/20dB) of both relative intensity noise and frequency noise was observed in the Brillouin Stokes radiation as compared with those noises of its pump source, a narrow-linewidth Er-doped fiber laser. Ultranarrow spectral linewidth of the Brillouin fiber lasers was investigated by both delayed self-heterodyne technique and heterodyne beat technique between two independent Brillouin fiber lasers.