Frequency noise reduction in erbium doped fibre Bragg grating lasers using active electronic feedback

Author

Cranch, G.A.

Author_Institution

Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

2002

Firstpage

293

Abstract

We present an erbium doped fibre laser (EDFL) in a MOPA (master oscillator power amplifier) configuration with intensity and frequency noise reduction using electronic feedback techniques. The intensity noise is suppressed using feedback to the pump diode current and the frequency noise is suppressed by locking the laser emission to a fibre interferometer and applying a feedback signal through laser cavity strain using a piezo-electric element.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; erbium; laser feedback; laser mode locking; laser noise; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; piezoelectric devices; semiconductor lasers; Er-doped FBG lasers; MOPA configuration; Mach Zehnder interferometers; electronic feedback techniques; erbium doped fibre Bragg grating lasers; frequency noise reduction; intensity noise reduction; laser cavity strain feedback signal; laser emission locking; master oscillator power amplifiers; noise suppression; piezoelectric elements; pump diode current feedback; Bragg gratings; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber gratings; Frequency; Laser feedback; Laser noise; Noise reduction; Pump lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Sensors Conference Technical Digest, 2002. Ofs 2002, 15th

Conference_Location

Portland, OR, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7289-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFS.2002.1000560

Filename

1000560