Suppression of beating noise of narrow-linewidth erbium-doped fiber ring lasers by use of a semiconductor optical amplifier

Xu, Lei and Glesk, Ivan and Baby, Varghese and Prucnal, Paul R. (2003) Suppression of beating noise of narrow-linewidth erbium-doped fiber ring lasers by use of a semiconductor optical amplifier. Optics Letters, 28 (10). pp. 780-782. ISSN 0146-9592 (https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.28.000780)

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Abstract

Beating noise in narrow-linewidth erbium-doped fiber ring lasers puts severe limitations on applications of the lasers. We demonstrate the suppression of beating noise in fiber ring lasers by using a semiconductor optical amplifier in the laser cavity, which acts as a high-pass filter. Two different ring structures are presented as examples to demonstrate this beating noise suppression.

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Xu, Lei, Glesk, Ivan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3176-8069, Baby, Varghese and Prucnal, Paul R.;
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