Noise-sidebands-free and ultra-low-RIN 1.5  μm single-frequency fiber laser towards coherent optical detection

Qilai Zhao; Zhitao Zhang; Bo Wu; Tianyi Tan; Changsheng Yang; Jiulin Gan; Huihui Cheng; Zhouming Feng; Mingying Peng; Zhongmin Yang; Shanhui Xu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000326

Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 4, 326(2018)

Noise-sidebands-free and ultra-low-RIN 1.5 μm single-frequency fiber laser towards coherent optical detection

Qilai Zhao¹, Zhitao Zhang¹, Bo Wu², Tianyi Tan¹, Changsheng Yang^1,3, Jiulin Gan¹, Huihui Cheng¹, Zhouming Feng¹, Mingying Peng¹, Zhongmin Yang^1,4,5, and Shanhui Xu^1,3、*

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices and Institute of Optical Communication Materials, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China

²College of Optoelectronic Technology, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610225, China

³Guangdong Engineering Technology Research and Development Center of High-Performance Fiber Laser Techniques and Equipments, Zhuhai 519031, China

⁴Guangdong Engineering Technology Research and Development Center of Special Optical Fiber Materials and Devices, Guangzhou 510640, China

⁵Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fiber Laser Materials and Applied Techniques, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Dec. 18, 2017

Accepted: Feb. 6, 2018

Published Online: Aug. 1, 2018

The Author Email: Shanhui Xu (flxshy@scut.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000326

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