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

    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

    Language

    English

    First Page

    2870

    Last Page

    2872

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000240869400018

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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