INTENSITY NOISE-REDUCTION IN A SINGLE-FREQUENCY YTTERBIUM-CODOPED ERBIUM LASER

Authors
TACCHEO S LAPORTA P SVELTO O DEGERONIMO G
Citation
S. Taccheo et al., INTENSITY NOISE-REDUCTION IN A SINGLE-FREQUENCY YTTERBIUM-CODOPED ERBIUM LASER, Optics letters, 21(21), 1996, pp. 1747-1749
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
21
Issue
21
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1747 - 1749
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1996)21:21<1747:INIASY>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
We report on intensity noise suppression in a diode-pumped, single-fre quency erbium bulk-glass laser codoped with ytterbium. Using an optoel ectronic feedback circuit, we acheived a 30-dB reduction of the relaxa tion oscillation peak, at 160-kHz frequency, to a relative intensity n oise of -114 dB/Hz. A useful output power of 15 mW at 1533-nm waveleng th was obtained. (C) 1996 Optical Society of America