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Noise in Interferometers Including Modal Noise and Distortions

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Book cover Laser Diode Modulation and Noise

Part of the book series: Advances in Optoelectronics (ADOP) ((ADOP,volume 3))

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If laser light is fed through an interferometer, as sketched in Fig. 8.1, the power transmission from the input to the output depends on the actual optical frequency v. If a laser exhibits phase or frequency noise as expressed by the spectral linewidth Δv the frequency noise may be converted to intensity noise after the interferometer.

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Petermann, K. (1988). Noise in Interferometers Including Modal Noise and Distortions. In: Laser Diode Modulation and Noise. Advances in Optoelectronics (ADOP), vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2907-4_8

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