We present a highly stable light source at telecom wavelengths, based on a short erbium doped fiber. The high stability arises from the high inversion of the Er3+ion population. This source is developed to work as a stable reference in radiometric applications and is useful in any application where high stability and/or a large bandwidth are necessary. The achieved long-term stability is 10 ppm.
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@article{arxiv.1310.2857,
title = {Intrinsically stable light source at telecom wavelengths},
author = {Fernando Monteiro and Thiago Guerreiro and Bruno Sanguinetti and Hugo Zbinden},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.2857},
year = {2013}
}