Coherence properties of fast frequency swept lasers revealed via full electric field reconstruction

Thomas Butler; David Goulding; Svetlana Slepneva; Ben O’Shaughnessy; Bryan Kelleher; Stephen P. Hegarty; Hong Chou Lyu; Karol Karnowski; Maciej Wojtkowski; Andrei G. Vladimirov; Guillaume Huyet

doi:10.1117/12.2209615

4 March 2016 Coherence properties of fast frequency swept lasers revealed via full electric field reconstruction

Thomas Butler, David Goulding, Svetlana Slepneva, Ben O’Shaughnessy, Bryan Kelleher, Stephen P. Hegarty, Hong Chou Lyu, Karol Karnowski, Maciej Wojtkowski, Andrei G. Vladimirov, Guillaume Huyet

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Proceedings Volume 9742, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXIV; 97420K (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2209615
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

A novel, time-resolved interferometric technique is presented allowing the reconstruction of the complex electric field output of a fast frequency swept laser in a single-shot measurement. The power of the technique is demonstrated by examining a short cavity swept source designed for optical coherence tomography applications, with a spectral bandwidth of 18 THz. This novel analysis of the complete electric field reveals the modal structure and modal evolution of the device as well as providing a time-resolved real-time characterization of the optical spectrum, linewidth and coherence properties of a dynamic rapidly swept laser.

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Thomas Butler, David Goulding, Svetlana Slepneva, Ben O’Shaughnessy, Bryan Kelleher, Stephen P. Hegarty, Hong Chou Lyu, Karol Karnowski, Maciej Wojtkowski, Andrei G. Vladimirov, and Guillaume Huyet "Coherence properties of fast frequency swept lasers revealed via full electric field reconstruction", Proc. SPIE 9742, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXIV, 97420K (4 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2209615

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