Title

Injection-Locked Mode-Locked Laser With Long-Term Stabilization And High Power-Per-Combline

Keywords

Harmonic mode-locking; Injection-locking; Optical frequency stabilization; Supermode noise; Timing jitter

Abstract

A novel method is presented to provide long-term stabilization of an injection-locked harmonically mode-locked laser to a narrow-linewidth continuous-wave (CW) source for the first time. The method, based on the Pound-Drever-Hall method of laser frequency stabilization, exploits the phase shift across a laser cavity mode resonance to detect the offset between the CW frequency and the combline frequency desired for injection-locking. Longterm suppression of the radio-frequency supermode noise spurs is shown as well as 36-dB suppression of optical supermodes. Significant reductions in phase and amplitude noise are also shown due to injection. Post amplification noise results are presented, showing an increase in optical power per combline with no degradation in pulse-to-pulse energy fluctuation or timing jitter. © 2009 IEEE.

Publication Date

12-1-2009

Publication Title

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volume

21

Issue

2

Number of Pages

94-96

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2008.2008816

Socpus ID

73249150692 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/73249150692

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