A fiber optic frequency shifter
| Autor: | Brian Schmitz, Renliang Xu, Martin Lynch |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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| Zdroj: | Review of Scientific Instruments. 68:1952-1961 |
| ISSN: | 1089-7623 0034-6748 |
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.1148083 |
| Popis: | A fiber optic frequency shifter capable of shifting the frequency of light traveling through the fiber has been designed, constructed, and tested. The frequency of the transmitted light is shifted by stretching and contracting the optical fiber that is wound around two piezoelectric ceramic tubes. The frequency of the light is shifted by linearly changing the path length along which the light must travel. The diameters of two piezoelectric ceramic tubes are changed when a linearly increasing electric field is applied to the tubes. A servo control system is used to correct and compensate for nonlinearity of the piezoelectric material and assembly. A frequency shift of up to 305 Hz for up to 2.5 s with a linewidth of less than 1 Hz is achieved with the present setup. This frequency shifter has been successfully applied to a laser light scattering apparatus for which heterodyne experiments are made for particle electrophoretic mobility and zeta potential measurements. |
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