The invention discloses a device of measuring the line-width of a
laser with narrow line-width and a method of measuring the line-width based on a
optical fiber delay self-
heterodyne method; in the hardware device, an
optical fiber delay line is connected between a first and a second couplers; an acousto-optic modulator is connected between the first and the second couplers; the measured
laser isconnected to the input of the first coupler, and a photoelectric
detector is connected to the output of the second coupler; the photoelectric
detector is connected with a
spectrum analyzer. In the line-width measurement,
simulation models of the line-width triangle v of the
laser and the spectrum-width triangle f of the photoelectric current
heterodyne signal are built in the
frequency shift delay self-
heterodyne methodology, and the function relation between the line-width triangle v of the laser and the spectrum-width triangle f of the photoelectric current heterodyne
signal is obtained fitting of the three-level proportion
function model. The invention presents that with the short
optical fiber delay self-heterodyne method, the device can eliminate the deficiency of greatly reduced measuring precision because of not enough
delayed time in the delay self-heterodyne method when the length of the delay optical
fiber is less than 6 times
coherence length of the laser, so as to provide an
effective method of precisely measuring the line-width of the laser with narrow line-width in projects.