We demonstrate feed-forward vibration isolation on a suspended Fabry-Perot interferometer using Wiener filtering and a variant of the common least mean square adaptive filter algorithm. We compare the experimental results with theoretical estimates of the cancellation efficiency. Using data from the recent Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) Science Run, we also estimate ...

We experimentally demonstrate a cost-effective method to locate faults in wavelength-division-multiplexing passive optical network (WDM-PON) utilizing a multiple-longitudinal-mode Fabry–Perot semiconductor laser directly modulated by chaotic wave from a Colpitts oscillator. Due to chaos modulation, every longitudinal mode of the laser has chaotic intensity waveform. Using a tunable optical filt...

A wide, multimode segment of a dielectric optical waveguide, enclosed by Bragg reflectors and evanescently coupled to adjacent port waveguides, can constitute the cavity in an integrated optical microresonator. It turns out that the device can be described adequately in terms of an approximate coupled mode theory model which involves only a few guided modes as basis fields. By reasoning along t...

There has been considerable interest recently in the development of fiber-optic sensors based on in-fiber Bragg gratings (FBG's), which can be written into Ge-doped fibers by use of a transverse holographic method.' The use of such elements for distributed strain or temperature sensing in advanced composite or other structural elements and their use as inline reflectors in interferometric syste...

We have designed and fabricated a kind of supersymmetric slotted Fabry–Perot semiconductor laser near 1550 nm to achieve single-mode, high-power, narrow-linewidth operation. The structure the is composed an electrically pumped broad ridge waveguide in middle provide optical gain, group periodic slots etched front facet suppress extra longitudinal modes narrow linewidth, pair passive superpartne...

The general theory of a diaphragm fiber-optic sensor (DFOS) is proposed. We use a critical test to determine if a DFOS is based on Fabry-Perot interference or intensity modulation. By use of the critical test, this is the first design, to the best of our knowledge, of a purely Fabry-Perot DFOS, fabricated with microelectromechanical system technology, and characterized as an audible microphone ...

We experimentally demonstrate the phase relations of three-port gratings by investigating three-port coupled Fabry-Perot cavities. Two different gratings that have the same first-order diffraction efficiency but differ substantially in their second-order diffraction efficiency have been designed and manufactured. Using the gratings as couplers to Fabry-Perot cavities, we could validate the resu...

We report 16 new laser lines generated in a short-wavelength far-infrared Fabry-Perot laser cavity. The CO(2) pump laser is coupled into the far-infrared laser outside the far-infrared laser mode, and the cavity uses a 45 degrees adjustable output coupling mirror; this combination results in a low-loss Fabry-Perot cavity for wavelengths below 150 microm. The new lines are of medium and strong i...

Abstrucr-Two-diode laser-pumped Nd : YAG lasers have been frequency stabilized to a commercial 6.327 GHz free spectral range Fabry-Perot interferometer yielding a best-case beatnote linewidth of 330 mHz. In addition, a Fabry-Perot interferometer with a free spectral range of 680 MHz, a linewidth of 25 kHz, and a finesse of 27 500 has been built and when it was substituted in place of the commer...