A passive method to compensate nonlinearity in a homodyne interferometer
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Removing nonlinearity of a homodyne interferometer by adjusting the gains of its quadrature detector systems.
Most homodyne interferometers have a quadrature detector system that includes two polarizing beam splitters that cause nonlinearity of the order of a few nanometers by phase mixing. Detectors should have the same gains to reduce nonlinearity under the assumption that there is no loss in optical components. However, optical components exhibit some loss. We show that nonlinearity can be reduced t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Optics Express
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1094-4087
DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.023299