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High-power all-fiber ultra-low noise laser

Applied Physics B volume 124, Article number: 114 (2018) Cite this article

Abstract

High-power ultra-low noise single-mode single-frequency lasers are in great demand for interferometric metrology. Robust, compact all-fiber lasers represent one of the most promising technologies to replace the current laser sources in use based on injection-locked ring resonators or multi-stage solid-state amplifiers. Here, a linearly polarized high-power ultra-low noise all-fiber laser is demonstrated at a power level of 100 W. Special care has been taken in the study of relative intensity noise (RIN) and its reduction. Using an optimized servo actuator to directly control the driving current of the pump laser diode, we obtain a large feedback bandwidth of up to 1.3 MHz. The RIN reaches − 160 dBc/Hz between 3 and 20 kHz.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) (ANR14 LAB05 0002 01) and Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine (2014-IR60309-00003281); the author J. Zhao acknowledges Post-doctoral scholarship Grant from La Fondation Franco-Chinoise pour la Science et ses Applications (FFCSA); European Gravitational Observatory (EGO). We thank Dr. Benoit Gouhier and Dr. Sergio Rota-Rodrigo for their comments on the paper.

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    Present address: MOE Key Laboratory of Fundamental Physical Quantities Measurement, School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Rd., Wuhan, 430074, China

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  1. Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences (LP2N), IOGS-CNRS-Université de Bordeaux, 33405, Talence, France

    Jian Zhao, Germain Guiraud, Florian Floissat, Alexis Casanova & Giorgio Santarelli

  2. Azur Light Systems, Av. de la Canteranne, 33600, Pessac, France

    Germain Guiraud & Nicholas Traynor

  3. ALPhANOV, 1 Rue François Mitterrand, 33405, Talence, France

    Christophe Pierre & Johan Boullet

  4. Laboratoire ARTEMIS, UMR 7250 Université Côte d’Azur-CNRS-Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, 06304, Nice, France

    Ali Hreibi & Walid Chaibi

  5. Amplitude-Systemes, 11 Avenue de la Canteranne, 33600, Pessac, France

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Zhao, J., Guiraud, G., Pierre, C. et al. High-power all-fiber ultra-low noise laser. Appl. Phys. B 124, 114 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-018-6989-7

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