Simultaneously reducing the intensity and frequency noise of single-frequency phosphate fiber laser

Abstract

We demonstrate an optoelectronic feedback method to simultaneously reduce the intensity and frequency noise of a single-frequency phosphate fiber laser for the first time. Based on the fact that the intensity and frequency noise in this laser mainly originate from the pump power fluctuations, we implement a simple and compact feedback loop and achieve a maximum noise reduction of over 20 dB for the intensity noise at frequencies of 0.3–3 kHz and 10 dB for the frequency noise at around 1 kHz. In addition, the laser instability is improved from ±1.7% to ±0.1%, and the laser line shape is observed to be compressed at the central part.