Title

Greater than 20-dB supermode noise suppression and timing jitter reduction via CW injection of a harmonically mode-locked laser

Authors

Authors

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

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Abbreviated Journal Title

IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett.

Keywords

harmonic mode-locking; injection-locking; optical linewidth; supermode; noise; timing jitter; SEMICONDUCTOR-LASERS; LOCKING; COMB; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Optics; Physics, Applied

Abstract

Characterization of the timing and amplitude (AM) noise have shown a greater than 20-dB reduction of the supermode noise spurs from a harmonically mode-locked laser by continuous-wave optical injection. A reduction of the timing jitter and AM noise from 127 to 25 fs and 0.85% to 0.12% (10 Hz-100 MHz), respectively, is demonstrated. A reduction of the optical linewidth, implied by the reduction in the close-in phase noise, is also shown.

Journal Title

Ieee Photonics Technology Letters

Volume

19

Issue/Number

13-16

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

1221

Last Page

1223

WOS Identifier

WOS:000248671600087

ISSN

1041-1135

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