• Infrared and Laser Engineering
  • Vol. 51, Issue 10, 20210763 (2022)
Jiaqi Wang1、2, Liang Xu1、*, and Liang Chang1、2、3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650216, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20210763 Cite this Article
    Jiaqi Wang, Liang Xu, Liang Chang. Suppression of fiber modal noise by using deformable mirror[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(10): 20210763 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The modal noise in optical fiber limits the measurement accuracy of the next generation of high precision radial velocity spectrograph. Especially when using coherent light sources for wavelength calibration, modal noise can induce radial velocity errors that reduce the accuracy of radial velocity measurement. In order to suppress optical fiber modal noise, a technical method based on deformable mirror to dynamically change speckle pattern is proposed. The method smoothes the speckle pattern caused by optical fiber and improves the centroid stability of calibration spectrum by dynamically changing the shape of deformable mirror in one single exposure time, so as to ensure the measurement accuracy of radial velocity. A 632.8 nm He-Ne laser is used as a coherent calibration light source to verify the effectiveness of the device. Experimental results show that the optical fiber modal noise can be effectively suppressed when a single exposure image contains about 105 speckle patterns. For the spectrograph with resolution R=100000, the radial velocity calibration error caused by optical fiber modal noise is about 19.8 cm/s in use of one single calibration line, which is similar to the effect of other suppression methods in the world. And this method can not only improve the energy utilization rate but also not affect the service life of optical fiber.
    Jiaqi Wang, Liang Xu, Liang Chang. Suppression of fiber modal noise by using deformable mirror[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(10): 20210763
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