We report on linewidth narrowing and stabilization of semiconductor DFB laser implemented through its self-injection locking to an external fiber ring cavity in conjunction with an active optoelectronic feedback circuit controlled by a simple low-cost USB-DAQ card. The system enables narrowing of the DFB laser linewidth below ~0.5 kHz and drastically reduced the laser phase noise. Specifically, the laser configuration is fully spliced from the polarization maintaining (PM) single-mode optical fiber that exhibits significantly improved stability against the environment noise. Drastic narrowing of the DFB laser linewidth down to ~310 Hz and a phase noise less than –100 dBc/Hz (<30 kHz) are achieved with the PM fiber ring cavity built from a single fiber coupler. The reported PM laser configuration is of great interest for many laser applications where a narrow sub-kHz linewidth, simple design and low cost are important.
Stabilizing DFB laser injection-locked to an external polarization maintaining optical fiber ring cavity
Optical Sensors 2023 ; 2023 ; Prague, Czech Republic
Proc. SPIE ; 12572
2023-05-31
Conference paper
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