% Script to compute the Relative Intensity Noise of a laser by recording the y-t signal % by Mathias Neidig in 2012 % modified for DyLab use by Karthik in 2024 % The RIN is defined as % % RIN = 10* log10 [Single-sided power spectrum density / (average power)] % % and is given in [RIN] = dB/Hz clear all close all %% Set the directory where the data is dirDCData = 'C:\\Users\\Karthik\\Documents\\GitRepositories\\Calculations\\Time-Series-Analyzer\\Time-Series-Data\\20240915\\After_AOD\\DC_Coupling\\'; dirACData = 'C:\\Users\\Karthik\\Documents\\GitRepositories\\Calculations\\Time-Series-Analyzer\\Time-Series-Data\\20240915\\After_AOD\\AC_Coupling\\'; %% Load the files which contain: - the DC coupled y-t signal to obtain the averaged power % - the AC coupled y-t signal to obtain the fluctuations % - the AC coupled y-t signal with the beam blocked to obtain the background fluctuations %------------------------------------------------------------------------- % bgsignal = load( [ dirACData '20240915_Background_AC'] ); % dcsignal = load( [ dirDCData '20240915_1V_-3Mod_DC_PID_Inactive'] ); % acsignal_1 = load( [ dirACData '20240915_1V_-3Mod_AC_PID_Inactive'] ); % acsignal_2 = load( [ dirACData '20240915_1V_-3Mod_AC_PID_Active'] ); % label_0 = 'Background'; % label_1 = 'Power = 1 V, Modulation = -3.0 V, PID Inactive'; % label_2 = 'Power = 1 V, Modulation = -3.0 V, PID Active'; % %------------------------------------------------------------------------- % %% Read out the important parameters dcdata = dcsignal.A; acdata_1 = acsignal_1.A; acdata_2 = acsignal_2.A; bgdata = bgsignal.A; N = length(dcdata); % #samples f_s = 1/dcsignal.Tinterval; % Sample Frequency delta_f = f_s/N; % step size in frequency domain delta_t = 1/f_s; % time step %% Custom Control Parameters % Choose smoothing parameter; has to be odd %----------------% span = 21; % %----------------% %% Computes the RIN % compute the average power (voltage^2) average_P = mean(dcdata.*dcdata); % compute the power spectrum density FFT(A) x FFT*(A)/N^2 of the source & the bg psd_src_1 = fft(acdata_1) .* conj(fft(acdata_1))/N^2; psd_src_2 = fft(acdata_2) .* conj(fft(acdata_2))/N^2; psd_bg = fft(bgdata) .* conj(fft(bgdata))/N^2; % converts the psd to the single-sided psd --> psd is symmetric around zero --> omit % negative frequencies and put the power into the positive ones --> spsd for i = 1 : N/2+1 if i>1 spsd_src_1(i) = 2*psd_src_1(i); spsd_src_2(i) = 2*psd_src_2(i); spsd_bg(i) = 2*psd_bg(i); else spsd_src_1(i) = psd_src_1(i); spsd_src_2(i) = psd_src_2(i); spsd_bg(i) = psd_bg(i); end end % smooths the spsd by doing a moving average spsd_src_smooth_1 = smooth(spsd_src_1,span,'moving'); spsd_src_smooth_2 = smooth(spsd_src_2,span,'moving'); spsd_bg_smooth = smooth(spsd_bg, span,'moving'); % calculates the RIN given in dB/Hz; the factor delta_f is needed to convert from dB/bin into dB/Hz RIN_src_smooth_1 = 10*log10(spsd_src_smooth_1/(average_P*delta_f)); RIN_src_smooth_2 = 10*log10(spsd_src_smooth_2/(average_P*delta_f)); RIN_bg_smooth = 10*log10(spsd_bg_smooth /(average_P*delta_f)); % creates an array for the frequencies up to half the sampling frequency f = f_s/2 * linspace(0,1,N/2+1); f_smooth = smooth(f,span,'moving'); % % Calculates the shot noise limit of the used PD given the wavelength of the light source and % incident average power PlanckConstant = 6.62607015E-34; SpeedOfLight = 299792458; WavelengthOfLaserLight = 1064E-9; FrequencyOfLaserLight = SpeedOfLight / WavelengthOfLaserLight; QuantumEfficiencyOfPD = 1; AverageIncidentPower = 0.001; % (in W) ShotNoiseLimit = 10*log10((2 * PlanckConstant * FrequencyOfLaserLight) / (QuantumEfficiencyOfPD * AverageIncidentPower)); %% Plots the RIN % Plots the RIN vs frequency f_ = clf; figure(f_); set(gcf,'Position',[100 100 950 750]) semilogx(f_smooth, RIN_bg_smooth, LineStyle = "-", Color = [.7 .7 .7]) hold on semilogx(f_smooth,RIN_src_smooth_1,'r-') semilogx(f_smooth,RIN_src_smooth_2,'b-') ax = gca(f_); ax.XAxis.FontSize = 14; ax.YAxis.FontSize = 14; xlabel('Frequency [Hz]', FontSize=16) ylabel('RIN [dBc/Hz]', FontSize=16) xlim([10 5E6]); ylim([-140 -25]); title('\bf Intensity noise of Arm 1 of the ODT as measured by an Out-of-loop PD', FontSize=14) legend(label_0, label_1, label_2, 'Location','NorthWest', FontSize=12); grid on % optional: save the picture without editing wherever you want %------------------------------------------% % saveas(f_,'FileName','png'); % %------------------------------------------%