Title :
Real-time heterodyne-based measurements of fiber laser spectral dynamics
Author :
Sugavanam, Srikanth ; Fabbri, S. ; Le, S. Thai ; Lobach, I. ; Kablukov, S.I. ; Khorev, S. ; Churkin, Dmitry
Author_Institution :
Aston Inst. of Photonic Technol., Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK
Abstract :
We present a method to measure in real-time the instantaneous generation spectrum of fiber lasers over consecutive cavity round-trips.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; heterodyne detection; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical fibre testing; optical pulse generation; consecutive cavity round-trips; fiber laser spectral dynamics; instantaneous generation spectrum; real-time heterodyne-based measurements; High-speed optical techniques; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; Real-time systems; Signal resolution; Time-frequency analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
