Kueng, A.Thévenaz, LucRobert, P. A.2008-09-292008-09-292008-09-291996https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/29938WOS:A1996BH14G00098The Brillouin fibre laser has experimentally demonstrated its suitability for the measurement of laser linewidth in the 1 kHz to 500 kHz frequency range. A major advantage of this system is to be widely independent of the source wavelength by generating the uncorrelated reference signal at a fixed frequency below the source under test. This solution is simple and affordable, since it only requires widely available standard optical supplies. The measured spectra of a compact diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser and a spectrally-narrowed semiconductor laser are shownfibre laserslaser variables measurementmeasurement by laser beamneodymiumsemiconductor laserssolid lasersspectral line breadthstimulated Brillouin scatteringtext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper