Journal
IEEE ACCESS
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages 119875-119882Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3219870
Keywords
Phase noise; lasers; spectral analysis; noise
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This article reports a technique that utilizes RF quadrature demodulation to measure laser frequency modulation (FM) noise based on a delayed self-heterodyne setup. The measurement is self-referencing and allows for precise characterization of FM noise over a sufficiently long duration. The effectiveness of this technique is demonstrated through measurements on external cavity lasers and a fiber laser, with good agreement between the measured FM noise and the sum of individual FM noise.
We report on a technique that uses RF quadrature demodulation to measure laser FM-noise based on a delayed self-heterodyne setup. The measurement is self-referencing and the FM-noise can be measured with high precision over a sufficiently long duration that allows us to explore the limits imposed by the delay line in the well-known self-heterodyne laser phase noise measurement setup. We perform this measurement for two external cavity lasers with linewidths of tens of kilohertz and a fiber laser with a linewidth of 20 Hz. The scheme is checked and verified by finding good agreement between the FM-noise measured from beating the two external cavity lasers and the sum of the individual FM-noise of each laser.
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