Digital holography efficiency measurements with excess noise

et al. 2020

Opt. Eng.

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To simulate the effects of multiple-longitudinal modes and rapid fluctuations in center frequency, we use sinusoidal phase modulation and linewidth broadening, respectively. These effects allow us to degrade the temporal coherence of our master-oscillator laser, which we then use to conduct digital holography experiments. In turn, our results show that the coherence efficiency decreases quadratically with fringe visibility and that our measurements agree with our models to within 1.8% for sinusoidal phase modulation and 6.9% for linewidth broadening.

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Digital holography experiments with degraded temporal coherence

Thornton¹,

Mao²,

et al. 2020

Opt. Eng.

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“…Our previous work experimentally measured the mixing efficiency of a DH system [10]. In this work, the mixing efficiency only depended on two efficiencies: the polarization efficiency and the spatial integration efficiency.…”

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Impacts of Laboratory Vibrations and Laser Flicker Noise on Digital Holography

Thornton

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

Rice

et al. 2020

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In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate the impacts of laboratory vibrations and laser flicker noise on digital holography (DH). Specifically, we measure both the vibration efficiency and the coherence efficiency of our DH system at various focal-plane array integration times and path-length differences between the signal and reference. These efficiencies, in practice, contribute to the overall mixing efficiency, which is a measure for how well the detected signal and reference interfere. The results show that when the integration time is ≤1 ms, the laboratory vibrations are negligible with a vibration efficiency of 100%; however, when the integration time equals 100 ms, the laboratory vibrations lead to a 94% vibration efficiency. In addition, the results show that the effective coherence length of the master-oscillator (MO) laser increases by 280% when the integration time decreases from 100 ms to 100 µs. To account for this outcome, we present a model of the coherence efficiency based on the frequency noise of the MO laser. The model fit to the DH data then shows that the frequency of the MO laser is flicker-noise dominated. As a result, decreasing the integration time improves the overall mixing efficiency because of highpass filtering in both the vibration efficiency and the coherence efficiency. Based on previous published efforts, these results have direct ties to the achievable signal-to-noise ratio of a DH system.

Spectral Broadening Effects on Pulsed-Source Digital Holography

Owens

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

Perram

2023

Using a pulsed configuration, a digital-holographic system is setup in the off-axis image plane recording geometry, and spectral broadening via pseudo-random bit sequence is used to degrade the temporal coherence of the master-oscillator laser. The associated effects on the signal-to-noise ratio are then measured in terms of the ambiguity and coherence efficiencies. It is found that the ambiguity efficiency, which is a function of signal-reference pulse overlap, is not affected by the effects of spectral broadening. The coherence efficiency, on the other hand, is affected. As a result, the coherence efficiency, which is a function of effective fringe visibility, is shown to be a valid performance metric for pulsed-source digital holography.