Stabilized fiber-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometer for carrier-frequency rejection
Optics
2013-09-13 v1 Atomic Physics
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1309.2880,
title = {Stabilized fiber-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometer for carrier-frequency rejection},
author = {Nathan Cooper and Jonathan Woods and James Bateman and Alexander Dunning and Tim Freegarde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.2880},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
\c{opyright} 2013 Optical Society of America. 5 pages, 5 figures