Frequency stabilization of two orthogonally polarized external cavity laser diodes using a novel γ-type optical configuration consist of a phase modulator and a Faraday rotator mirror

Uehara Tomoyuki, Hagiwara Kohei, Tanigaki Toshihide, Tsuji Kenichiro, Onodera Noriaki

doi:10.1587/elex.11.20140169

Frequency stabilization of two orthogonally polarized external cavity laser diodes using a novel γ-type optical configuration consist of a phase modulator and a Faraday rotator mirror

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Uehara Tomoyuki

Department of Communications Engineering, National Defense Academy of Japan
Hagiwara Kohei

Department of Communications Engineering, National Defense Academy of Japan
Tanigaki Toshihide

Department of Communications Engineering, National Defense Academy of Japan
Tsuji Kenichiro

Department of Communications Engineering, National Defense Academy of Japan
Onodera Noriaki

Department of Communications Engineering, National Defense Academy of Japan

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We propose a novel method to stabilize two external cavity lasers for optical generation of microwave and millimeter wave signals. In our method, two 1550-nm, servo-locked external cavity laser diodes (ECLDs) are simultaneously locked to two resonance frequencies of a single Fabry-Perot optical cavity. The stabilization of two lasers are realized by introducing classical FM sideband technique. In γ-type optical configuration, two wavelengths from the ECLDs with orthogonal polarization are simultaneously phase modulated by a phase modulator with a Faraday rotator mirror. The γ-type optical configuration is designed as a compact, stable and double-pass phase modulation apparatus with same modulation index for two orthogonally polarized signals transmitted through a polarization maintaining fiber. We obtain short-term stability of 200 kHz at an averaging of 10 ms, which is measured with the square root of the Allan variance from the beat note between frequency stabilized lasers.