Published January 12, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Direct measurement of the coherent light proportion from a practical laser source

  • 1. Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543
  • 2. Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117551

Description

We present a technique to estimate the proportion of coherent emission in the light emitted by a practical laser source without spectral filtering. The technique is based on measuring interferometric photon correlations between the output ports of an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer. With this, we characterize the fraction of coherent emission in the light emitted by a laser diode when transiting through the lasing threshold.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.109.013706;
arXiv
arXiv:2310.10377;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100001459; 10.13039/501100001381; 10.13039/501100001459; 10.13039/501100001381;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review A
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
7 pgs.
ISSN
1094-1622

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Copyright
©2024 American Physical Society
Notes
Contact Email: christian.kurtsiefer@gmail.com; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
Ministry of Education - Singapore; National Research Foundation Singapore; Ministry of Education - Singapore; National Research Foundation Singapore