Elimination of excess photon noise from fibre super-radiant sources

Abstract

High-power incoherent sources such as ELEDs and rare-earth-doped superfluorescence sources exhibit excess photon noise which limits their application in sensors such as the fibre-optic gyro. We show that this form of noise can be eliminated by a compensation scheme.

International Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics Anaheim CA 21-25 May (1990) Vol.7 pp.154

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