Abstract
A two-coupler-type Er-doped-fiber ring resonator is proposed which compensates for the round-trip optical loss by optical amplification thereby attaining a high finesse. Also proposed is a mode-filtered heterodyne method for resonant-linewidth measurements which does not demand narrow-linewidth light sources but uses the beat noise between two uncorrected lights filtered by the resonator passband. With the proposed measurement method, a finess -500 and a resonant linewidth -17 kHz are confirmed from the Er-doped fiber ring resonator. The ring resonator is operated as a high-resolution optical spectrum analyzer.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1554-1560 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Lightwave Technology |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 11 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1991 Nov |