Low-noise wavelength-locked Brillouin ring laser for Brillouin sensing

Diego Marini; Leonardo Rossi; Filippo Bastianini; Gabriele Bolognini

doi:10.1117/12.2540111

28 August 2019 Low-noise wavelength-locked Brillouin ring laser for Brillouin sensing

Diego Marini, Leonardo Rossi, Filippo Bastianini, Gabriele Bolognini

Proceedings Volume 11199, Seventh European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors; 1119924 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2540111
Event: Seventh European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors, 2019, Limassol, Cyprus

Abstract

In this work, we present an enhanced design for a Brillouin Ring Laser (BRL) based on a doubly-resonant cavity (DRC) with short fiber length, paired with a heterodyne-based wavelength-locking system, to be employed as pump-probe source in Brillouin sensing applications. The enhanced source is compared with the long-cavity (LC) (~ 2 km) BRL pump-probe source that we recently demonstrated, showing a significantly lower relative intensity noise (~ -145 dB/Hz in the 0-800 MHz range), a narrower linewidth (10 kHz), combined with large tunability features and an excellent pumpprobe frequency stability (~200 Hz) which is uncommon for fiber lasers. The measurement of intensity noise on the novel BRL signal yielded an improved signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of about 22 dB with respect to LC-BRL schemes that is expected to lead to a temperature/strain resolution enhancement in BOTDA applications up to 5.5 dB.

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Diego Marini, Leonardo Rossi, Filippo Bastianini, and Gabriele Bolognini "Low-noise wavelength-locked Brillouin ring laser for Brillouin sensing", Proc. SPIE 11199, Seventh European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors, 1119924 (28 August 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2540111

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