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Direct measurement of coherent light proportion from a practical laser source

Quantum Physics 2024-01-17 v1

Abstract

We present a technique to estimate the proportion of coherent emission in the light emitted by a practical laser source without spectral filtering. The technique is based on measuring interferometric photon correlations between the output ports of an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer. With this, we characterize the fraction of coherent emission in the light emitted by a laser diode when transiting through the lasing threshold.

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@article{arxiv.2310.10377,
  title  = {Direct measurement of coherent light proportion from a practical laser source},
  author = {Xi Jie Yeo and Eva Ernst and Alvin Leow and Jaesuk Hwang and Lijiong Shen and Christian Kurtsiefer and Peng Kian Tan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.10377},
  year   = {2024}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures

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