Stabilization of electro-optic modulator bias voltage drift using a lock-in amplifier and a proportional-integral-derivative controller in a distributed Brillouin sensor system

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1482-1485

  Snoddy, Jeffrey ^a   Li, Yun ^a   Ravet, Fabien ^a   Bao, Xiaoyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS VOLTAGE; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DISTRIBUTED BRILLOUIN SENSOR SYSTEMS; LOCK-IN AMPLIFIERS; PROPORTIONAL INTEGRAL DERIVATIVE CONTROLLERS;

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 34247500968     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.001482     Document Type: Article

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