Broadband white light laser combiner system

Daniel Ryan; Alireza Azizi; Xin An; Hong Tang; Richard Demers

doi:10.1117/12.804262

2 September 2008 Broadband white light laser combiner system

Daniel Ryan, Alireza Azizi, Xin An, Hong Tang, Richard Demers

Proceedings Volume 7056, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications II; 705623 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.804262
Event: Photonic Devices + Applications, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The SIM-Planetquest (Space Interferometry Mission), currently under development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, consists of two 6-meter baseline interferometers on a flexible truss. SIM's science goals require 1μas accuracy in its astrometric measurements[1]. To achieve this level of accuracy for detecting planets SIM built the Spectrum Calibration Development Unit (SCDU) testbed. The testbed requires a white light point source with broadband spectrum. Before each long test the spectrum on the camera must be calibrated. To achieve this task a laser light visible to camera was coupled to the white light source. The light system needed pointing stability of better than 4 micro-radians and a minimum optical power level at the fringe tracking camera. Due to stability requirement of the experiment, the setup, including the point source is in a vacuum chamber. To get a broadband spectrum point source inside the vacuum chamber white light from a multimode fiber was combined with laser light in free space to a photonics crystal fiber (PCF). The output is a single mode, broadband, and Gaussian beam. This paper explains the details of such a design and shows some of the results.

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Daniel Ryan, Alireza Azizi, Xin An, Hong Tang, and Richard Demers "Broadband white light laser combiner system", Proc. SPIE 7056, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications II, 705623 (2 September 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.804262

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