Abstract
Optical homodyne tomography (OHT) is used to show that the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise of a single mode in an erbium doped fiber amplifier is Bose-Einstein distributed. In general, an OHT set-up, a weak signal beam is mixed on a 50/50 beamsplitter with a strong local oscillator beam of the same polarization and spatio-temporal mode (optical homodyne), and falls on two p-i-n photodiodes; the difference between the two photocurrents is measured (balanced detection).
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 736-737 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS |
| Volume | 2 |
| State | Published - Dec 1 1999 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1999 12th Annual Meeting IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS'99) - San Francisco, CA, USA Duration: Nov 8 1999 → Nov 11 1999 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering