Jitter reduction by intracavity active phase modulation in a mode-locked semiconductor laser

    Authors

    S. Ozharar; I. Ozdur; F. Quinlan;P. J. Delfyett

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    Abstract

    We experimentally verify the theory of Haus et al. [IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 40, 41 (2004)] on the effects of timing jitter using intracavity phase modulation on the pulse train of a mode-locked laser. The theory is based on the solution of the Heisenberg-Langevin equation in the presence of dispersion and intracavity phase modulation. Using active intracavity phase modulation, we have reduced the timing jitter on a 10.24 GHz mode-locked diode laser by 50% from 304 to 150 fs integrated from 1 Hz to the Nyquist frequency of 5.12 GHz. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    34

    Issue/Number

    5

    Publication Date

    1-1-2009

    Document Type

    Article

    First Page

    677

    Last Page

    679

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000264522400043

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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