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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 51, Issue 16, Pages 3684-3691Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.003684
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Residual amplitude modulation (RAM) mechanisms in electro-optic phase modulators are detrimental in applications that require high purity phase modulation of the incident laser beam. While the origins of RAM are not fully understood, measurements have revealed that it depends on the beam properties of the laser as well as the properties of the medium. Here we present experimental and theoretical results that demonstrate, for the first time, the dependence of RAM production in electro-optic phase modulators on beam intensity. The results show an order of magnitude increase in the level of RAM, around 10 dB, with a fifteenfold enhancement in the input intensity from 12 to 190 mW/mm(2). We show that this intensity dependent RAM is photorefractive in origin. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America
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