Stabilized fiber-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometer for carrier-frequency rejection.
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We have demonstrated stabilization of a fiber-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometer, with a centimeter-scale path difference, to the transmission minimum for the carrier wave of a frequency-modulated laser beam. A time-averaged extinction of 32 dB, limited by the bandwidth of the feedback, was maintained over several hours. The interferometer was used to remove the carrier wave from a 780 nm laser beam that had been phase modulated at 2.7 GHz.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Applied optics
دوره 52 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013