Optical and RF stability transfer in a monolithic coupled-cavity colliding pulse mode-locked quantum dot laser

    Authors

    A. Ardey; J. Kim; E. Sarailou;P. J. Delfyett

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    LOCKING; Optics

    Abstract

    We report a novel quantum dot based laser design where a stable high-Q master laser is used to injection lock a passively mode-locked monolithic colliding pulse slave laser. Coupling between the crossed orthogonal laser cavities is achieved through a common monolithically integrated saturable absorber, which results in the locking and hence reduction of the timing jitter as well as the long-term frequency drift of the slave laser. A stable 30 GHz optical pulse train is generated with more than 10 dB reduction in the RF noise level at 20 MHz offset and close to 3 times reduction in the 10 dB average optical linewidth of the slave laser. (c) 2012 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    37

    Issue/Number

    17

    Publication Date

    1-1-2012

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    3480

    Last Page

    3482

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000308595300002

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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