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Applied Optics

Self-referencing mW-scale detection of sub-ns optical phase modulation in acetylene at 1530 nm

Nayeli Casillas, Serguei I. Stepanov, Manuel Ocegueda, E. Hernández

Published Aug 12, 2019• 5 citations
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Abstract

) vibrational-rotational transitions in the 1520-1540 nm wavelength range for a self-referencing homodyne detection of a sub-nanosecond optical phase modulation is reported. In the proposed configuration the collinearly propagating coherent dipole radiation of the excited molecule acts like a phase-locked reference wave (local oscillator) that enables transformation of the initial phase modulation into the intensity one. This technique does not need high light intensity and can operate in a linear range of the medium optical absorption. The linear optical phase demodulation (i.e., transformation of the phase-to-amplitude light modulation) is interpreted as an introduction of an additional phase shift to the carrier frequency component of the modulated signal in the maximum of the dispersion curve of a narrow optical absorption peak. It has been experimentally demonstrated with the bulk 10 cm long cuvette filled with low pressure (∼2 Torr) acetylene at room temperature. Effective demodulation of the milliwatt-scale incident laser wave of a single- and multi-mode structure is shown. As expected, the response to the fast (<1 ns) phase modulation was quadratic when the acetylene inhomogeneous Doppler-broadened (∼500 MHz) absorption line is excited in its center and was linearized by tuning at one of the absorption line sides. It is of a differentiating (high-pass) type with the cutoff frequency determined by the total spectral width of the utilized absorption line. Expected detection resolution is determined by the photon noise of the incident light intensity.

DOI
10.1364/ao.58.006495

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Abstract We propose to use phase memory of an ensemble of two-level centers, irradiated by the resonantly tuned detected signal wave, for homodyne interferometric detection of fast optical phase modulation. Collinearly propagating dipole radiation of the excited two-level centers acts as a coherent reference wave (local oscillator) necessary to transform the phase modulation into the amplitude modulation behind the resonant medium. The phase of this radiation follows the average phase of the incident detected wave with the characteristic transverse relaxation time T 2 that ensures adaptive properties of this interferometric detection configuration to slowly varying environmental conditions. We present experimental demonstration with the acetylene-filled hollow-core microstructured optical fibers at a wavelength of 1530.37 nm of the acetylene P9 absorption line, which is inside the telecommunications wavelengths range. It is shown that the response is quadratic when the acetylene ∼500 MHz inhomogeneously broadened absorption line is excited in its center, but can be essentially linearized for excitation at one of the line sides.
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