Suppression of mode partition noise in a multiwavelength semiconductor laser through hybrid mode locking

    Authors

    M. Mielke; P. J. Delfyett;G. A. Alphonse

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    FIBER; Optics

    Abstract

    We demonstrate the suppression of intensity fluctuations, which are known as mode partition noise, in a multiwavelength semiconductor laser by using a hybrid mode-locking scheme. The laser design incorporates a saturable absorber and a gain-modulated semiconductor optical amplifier, along with spectral filtering, in an external cavity to achieve multiwavelength hybrid mode locking. The mode-locked laser produces an error-free (pulse Q > 13) 300-MHz optical pulse train in each of three wavelength channels. (C) 2002 Optical Society of America.

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    27

    Issue/Number

    12

    Publication Date

    1-1-2002

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1064

    Last Page

    1066

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000176277600026

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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