Title

Ultralow-jitter and amplitude-noise semiconductor-based actively mode-locked laser

Authors

Authors

F. Quinlan; S. Gee; S. Ozharar;P. J. Delfyett

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Lett.

Keywords

TIMING JITTER; PHASE NOISE; ABSOLUTE; Optics

Abstract

We report a semiconductor-based, low-noise, 10.24 GHz actively mode-locked laser with 4.65 fs of relative timing jitter and a 0.0365% amplitude fluctuation (1 Hz to 100 MHz) of the optical pulse train. The keys to obtaining this result were the laser's high optical power and the low phase noise of the rf source used to mode lock the laser. The low phase noise of the rf source not only improves the absolute and relative timing jitter of the laser, but also prevents coupling of the rf source phase noise to the pulse amplitude fluctuations by the mode-locked laser. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.

Journal Title

Optics Letters

Volume

31

Issue/Number

19

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Document Type

Article

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.31.002870

Language

English

First Page

2870

Last Page

2872

WOS Identifier

WOS:000240869400018

ISSN

0146-9592

Recommended Citation

"Ultralow-jitter and amplitude-noise semiconductor-based actively mode-locked laser" (2006). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 6486.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/6486