• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 15, Issue 12, 121401 (2017)
Pengyuan Chang, Tiantian Shi, Shengnan Zhang, Haosen Shang, Duo Pan, and Jingbiao Chen*
Author Affiliations
  • State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication System and Network, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL201715.121401 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Pengyuan Chang, Tiantian Shi, Shengnan Zhang, Haosen Shang, Duo Pan, Jingbiao Chen. Faraday laser at Rb 1529 nm transition for optical communication systems[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(12): 121401 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We experimentally demonstrate a Faraday laser at Rb 1529 nm transition by using a performance-improved Rb electrodeless-discharge-lamp-based excited-state Faraday anomalous dispersion optical filter as the frequency-selective element. Neither the electrical locking scheme nor the additional frequency-stabilized pump laser are used. The frequency of the external-cavity diode laser is stabilized to the Rb 1529 nm transition, and the Allan deviation of the Faraday laser is measured by converting the optical intensity into frequency. The Faraday laser can be used as a frequency standard in the telecom C band for further research on metrology, microwave photonics, and optical communication systems.
    I=(Γ/2)2(Γ/2)2+Δ2,(1)

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    δI=(Γ/2)22ΔδΔ(Γ/2)4+2(Γ/2)2Δ2+Δ4,(2)

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    Δ20,(3)

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    Δ40,(4)

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    2ΔδΔ,(5)

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    Δ0,(6)

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    δI=(δΔ)2(Γ/2)2,(7)

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    δΔ=(Γ2)2×|δI|.(8)

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    Pengyuan Chang, Tiantian Shi, Shengnan Zhang, Haosen Shang, Duo Pan, Jingbiao Chen. Faraday laser at Rb 1529 nm transition for optical communication systems[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(12): 121401
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