High accuracy ranging with Yb3+-doped fiber-ring frequency-shifted feedback laser with phase-modulated seed

Ogurtsov, V. V.; Yatsenko, L. P.; Khodakovskyy, Vladimir M.; Shore, Bruce W.; Bonnet, Guy; Бергманн, К.

doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2006.04.070

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“…Bruce Shore contributed to this line of work as coauthor of previous publications (see [11,12,[18][19][20][21][22]) and through discussions of the topics of the current work. We thank Armin Zach (TOPTICA Projects GmbH) for helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.…”

Section: Acknowledgmentsmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Usually the discrete spectrum is not resolved and the optical spectrum of the FSF laser output can be described by the envelope J opt (ω) ∝ a 2 n(ω) with n(ω) = (ω − ω s )/Δ AOFS . The approach to distance measurements, based on the use of the phase-modulated laser as an external seed of the FSF laser, was proposed in [18] and experimentally demonstrated with a Yb 3+ -doped fiber ring FSF laser [19]. The phase ϕ s (t) of the seeding laser is harmonically modulated…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The sensitivity of the FSF-ranging scheme can be dramatically improved by seeding the FSF laser resonator with phase-modulated radiation. It was demonstrated with an FSF laser that sub-μm accuracy can be achieved [18][19][20][21]. The high signalto-noise ratio is the consequence of the superposition of a very large number of mutually coherent components of the FSF radiation [22].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Ranging with a frequency-shifted feedback laser using frequency-comb driven phase modulation of injected radiation

Kim

Yatsenko²,

Бергманн³

2022

J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys.

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Theoretical and experimental data is presented for the application of an injection-seeded frequency-shifted feedback (FSF) laser for high accuracy ranging. Previous work discussed such a ranging scheme with a phase-modulated single-frequency laser where the phase modulation is done by an electro-optical modulator driven by a single frequency $\Omega$ which is swept over a certain bandwidth depending on the given experimental situation. In the present theoretical and experimental work, the phase modulation of the injection laser is done by a frequency comb with temporally fixed frequency components at intervals $\Omega_d$ spanning a bandwidth adapted to the geometry of the object to be measured. It is shown that the superposition of such FSF radiation returning from the object and a reference surface on a detector leads to a train of sinusoidal pulses with an instantaneous frequency $\Omega_{inst}$ in the radio-frequency range. The repetition rate of these pulses is $\Omega_d$ and their duration is $< 2\pi / \Omega_d$. The central result of this work is the observation that the path length difference between reference and object surface can be deduced from $\Omega_{inst}$, e.g. by frequency counting. The benefit of this approach lies in the fact that active frequency variation is not needed; all features of the entire system (FSF laser plus phase-modulated injected radiation) are constant in time. Proof-of-concept results using an FSF-laser ranging scheme based on a semiconductor laser are presented.

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confidence: 94%

Section: Fsf Laser Seeded By the Phase-modulated Single Frequency Lasermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Ranging with a frequency-shifted feedback laser using frequency-comb driven phase modulation of injected radiation

Kim

Yatsenko²,

Бергманн³

2022

J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys.

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“…Frequency shifted feedback (FSF) lasers have attracted a sustained attention during the last 25 years because of their counter-intuitive physical properties that have triggered a large amount of fundamental studies in laser dynamics [1] or optical coherence [2][3][4], and have found applications in very diverse areas: communications protocols [5] , atomic physics [6], telemetry [7], profilometry [8] and sensing among others. Recall that a FSF laser is a laser cavity closed on the +1 (or -1) diffraction order of an acousto-optics frequency shifter (AOFS): each time a photon makes a roundtrip in the cavity its frequency is increased (or decreased) by the AOFS frequency in the case of a ring cavity, and by twice this frequency in the case of a linear cavity.…”

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Generation of ultrahigh and tunable repetition rates in CW injection-seeded frequency-shifted feedback lasers

Chatellus¹,

Jacquin²,

Hugon³

et al. 2013

Opt. Express

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We show both theoretically and experimentally that frequency-shifted feedback (FSF) lasers seeded with a single frequency laser can generate Fourier transform-limited pulses with a repetition rate tunable and limited by the spectral bandwidth of the laser. We demonstrate experimentally in a FSF laser with a 150 GHz spectral bandwidth, the generation of 6 ps-duration pulses at repetition rates tunable over more than two orders of magnitude between 0.24 and 37 GHz, by steps of 80 MHz. A simple linear analytical model i.e. ignoring both dynamic and non-linear effects, is sufficient to account for the experimental results. This possibility opens new perspectives for various applications where lasers with ultra-high repetition rates are required, from THz generation to ultrafast data processing systems.

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Ranging with frequency-shifted feedback lasers: from $$\upmu$$ μ m-range accuracy to MHz-range measurement rate

Kim¹,

Ogurtsov²,

Bonnet³

et al. 2016

Appl. Phys. B

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We report results on ranging based on frequency shifted feedback (FSF) lasers with two different implementations: (1) An Ytterbium-fiber system for measurements in an industrial environment with accuracy of the order of 1 µm, achievable over a distance of the order of meters with potential to reach an accuracy of better than 100 nm; (2) A semiconductor laser system for a high rate of measurements with an accuracy of 2 mm @ 1 MHz or 75 µm @ 1 kHz and a limit of the accuracy of ≥ 10 µm. In both implementations, the distances information is derived from a frequency measurement.The method is therefore insensitive to detrimental influence of ambient light. For the Ytterbium-fiber system a key feature is the injection of a single frequency laser, phase modulated at variable frequency Ω, into the FSFlaser cavity. The frequency Ω max at which the detector signal is maximal yields the distance. The semiconductor FSF laser system operates without external injection seeding. In this case the key feature is frequency counting that allows convenient choice of either accuracy or speed of measurements simply by changing the duration of the interval during which the frequency is measured by counting.

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High accuracy ranging with Yb3+-doped fiber-ring frequency-shifted feedback laser with phase-modulated seed

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Ranging with a frequency-shifted feedback laser using frequency-comb driven phase modulation of injected radiation

Ranging with a frequency-shifted feedback laser using frequency-comb driven phase modulation of injected radiation

Generation of ultrahigh and tunable repetition rates in CW injection-seeded frequency-shifted feedback lasers

Ranging with frequency-shifted feedback lasers: from $$\upmu$$ μ m-range accuracy to MHz-range measurement rate

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