Title :
Suitability of supercontinuum light near 2 μm for coherent dual comb spectroscopy
Author :
Knabe, K. ; Williams, P.A. ; Newbury, N.R.
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
We evaluate the signal-to-noise ratio penalty for dual comb spectroscopy caused by the excess optical phase noise and relative intensity noise on the long-wavelength supercontinuum of a spectrally broadened Er-fiber laser frequency comb.
Keywords :
light coherence; optical fibre amplifiers; optical harmonic generation; supercontinuum generation; coherent dual comb spectroscopy; long-wavelength supercontinuum; optical phase noise; relative intensity noise; signal-to-noise ratio penalty; spectrally broadened Er-fiber laser frequency comb; supercontinuum light; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fibers; Phase noise; Spectroscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
