Abbreviated Journal Title
Opt. Express
Keywords
MODE-LOCKED LASERS; TIMING JITTER; SEMICONDUCTOR-LASERS; FIBER LASER; Optics
Abstract
The phase noise of two low noise, high quality factor actively modelocked lasers is investigated. It is found that increasing the quality factor of a laser can increase the phase noise relative to the RF source used to modelock the laser, even though the absolute noise of the laser is decreased. The filtering of phase noise from the modelocking source that causes both the increase in relative noise and the decrease in absolute noise is exploited to reveal phase noise information otherwise obscured in a high quality factor laser. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.
Journal Title
Optics Express
Volume
14
Issue/Number
12
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
5346
Last Page
5355
WOS Identifier
ISSN
1094-4087
Recommended Citation
Quinlan, Franklyn; Gee, Sangyoun; Ozharar, Sarper; and Delfyett, Peter, "The effects of filtering RF source phase noise by a low noise, high quality factor actively modelocked laser on the laser's absolute and relative phase noise" (2006). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 7900.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/7900
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