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CLEO:2011 - Laser Applications to Photonic Applications

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2011.jthb84

Optica, Optics Express, 16(19), p. 14763, 2011

DOI: 10.1364/oe.19.014763

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Noise reduction of supercontinua via optical feedback

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Abstract

The impact of delayed optical feedback on the supercontinuum noise properties is investigated numerically and experimentally. The supercontinuum is generated by coupling femtosecond laser pulses into a microstructured fiber within a ring resonator, which introduces the optical feedback. The power noise and spectral amplitude noise properties of this feedback system are numerically and experimentally compared with single-pass supercontinuum generation. In a demonstrative experiment via optical feedback the power noise could be reduced by 15 dB and the spectral amplitude noise could be reduced by up to 28 dB.