Authors

D. Mandridis; C. Williams; I. Ozdur;P. J. Delfyett

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Express

Keywords

FREQUENCY STABILIZATION; Optics

Abstract

This work presents an extensive investigation of the performance characteristics of a semiconductor-based Theta cavity design laser with an intra-cavity Fabry-Perot etalon operating at 100 MHz repetition rate. The Theta laser being an external cavity harmonically mode-locked semiconductor laser exhibits supermode noise that impairs its performance. A fiberized Fabry-Perot periodic filter inserted within the Theta laser cavity mitigates the contribution of the supermode noise to the pulse-to-pulse energy variance by 20 times. The laser has both a compressed output with picosecond pulse duration and a uniform intensity quasi-CW linearly chirped pulse output with 10 nm bandwidth. Long-term stability is attained by referencing the cavity length to the etalon using an intra-cavity Hansch-Couillaud locking scheme.

Journal Title

Optics Express

Volume

19

Issue/Number

10

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

8994

Last Page

8999

WOS Identifier

WOS:000290490200018

ISSN

1094-4087

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