% Script to compute the Relative Intensity Noise of a laser by recording the y-t signal % by Mathias Neidig 2012_09_11 % 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\\20240807\\DC Coupling\\']; dirACData = ['C:\\Users\\Karthik\\Documents\\GitRepositories\\Calculations\\Time-Series-Analyzer\\Time-Series-Data\\20240807\\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 %-------------------------------------------------------------------------% dcsignal = readmatrix( [ dirDCData 'P7.0_M3.0_OOL.csv'] ); % acsignal = readmatrix( [ dirACData 'P7.0_M3.0_OOL.csv'] ); % bgsignal = readmatrix( [ dirACData 'Bkg_OOL.csv'] ); % %-------------------------------------------------------------------------% %% Read out the important parameters time_increment = 2E-6; dctime = dcsignal(1:end, 1) .* time_increment; actime = acsignal(1:end, 1) .* time_increment; bgtime = bgsignal(1:end, 1) .* time_increment; dcdata = dcsignal(1:end, 2); acdata = acsignal(1:end, 2); bgdata = bgsignal(1:end, 2); N = length(actime); % #samples f_s = 1/time_increment; % 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 = fft(acdata) .* conj(fft(acdata))/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(i) = 2*psd_src(i); spsd_bg(i) = 2*psd_bg(i); else spsd_src(i) = psd_src(i); spsd_bg(i) = psd_bg(i); end end % smooths the spsd by doing a moving average spsd_src_smooth = smooth(spsd_src,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 = 10*log10(spsd_src_smooth/(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'); % Plots the RIN vs frequency f_ = clf; figure(f_); semilogx(f_smooth,RIN_bg_smooth,'k-') hold on semilogx(f_smooth,RIN_src_smooth,'r-') xlabel('Frequency [Hz]') ylabel('RIN [dB/Hz]') xlim([min(f) max(f)]); title('\bf Relative Intensity Noise of ODT Arm 1') legend('Background PD Box', 'Power:7 V, Mod:-3.0 V','Location','NorthEast'); % text(1e5,-95,['\bf MovingAverage = ' num2str(span) ]); grid on % optional: save the picture without editing wherever you want %------------------------------------------% % saveas(f_,'FileName','png'); % %------------------------------------------%