Broadband (> 200 nm) spectrally flat and high power density (> 0 dBm/nm) light source for fiber sensing purposes

Miguel Gonzalez Herraez; Sonia Martin-Lopez; Ana Carrasco-Sanz; Frederique Vanholsbeeck; Stephane Coen; Pedro Corredera; Maria Luisa Hernanz

doi:10.1117/12.624273

23 May 2005 Broadband (> 200 nm) spectrally flat and high power density (> 0 dBm/nm) light source for fiber sensing purposes

Miguel Gonzalez Herraez, Sonia Martin-Lopez, Ana Carrasco-Sanz, Frederique Vanholsbeeck, Stephane Coen, Pedro Corredera, Maria Luisa Hernanz

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Proceedings Volume 5855, 17th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.624273
Event: 17th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, 2005, Bruges, Belgium

Abstract

We present a new kind of broadband continuous-wave source which outperforms any other broadband superluminescent or amplified spontaneous emission source both in terms of output spectral density and bandwidth. Our source covers the wavelength band of interest for fiber applications (from 1450 to 1625 nm) and has an output power of approximately 1.3 W. Additionally, it features a good power stability and we believe it might have very interesting applications in fiber sensing, for instance to avoid the need of amplification in the interrogation of remote Bragg gratings or to improve the resolution and dynamic range of optical coherence tomography setups.

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Miguel Gonzalez Herraez, Sonia Martin-Lopez, Ana Carrasco-Sanz, Frederique Vanholsbeeck, Stephane Coen, Pedro Corredera, and Maria Luisa Hernanz "Broadband (> 200 nm) spectrally flat and high power density (> 0 dBm/nm) light source for fiber sensing purposes", Proc. SPIE 5855, 17th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, (23 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.624273

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