Title

Comparison Of Fundamental And Harmonic Modelocking Of A 10 Ghz External Cavity Semiconductor Laser

Keywords

Coherence; Electric field correlations; Fundamental modelocking; Harmonic modelocking; Linewidth; Residual phase noise; Semiconductor lasers

Abstract

We report the measurement of electric field correlations of a hybridly modelocked external linear cavity semiconductor laser as a function pulse delay. We also report the measurement of residual phase noise corner frequency and longitudinal mode linewidth as a function of laser cavity length. We find that the pulses in the modelocked pulsetrain are correlated at only multiples of the cavity roundtrip time. Excellent agreement between residual phase noise corner frequency and longitudinal mode linewidth measurements suggest that the corner frequency is the average longitudinal mode linewidth. This relationship leads to a fundamental limit in the timing jitter of modelocked lasers.

Publication Date

12-31-2002

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

4732

Number of Pages

33-37

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.477434

Socpus ID

0036454535 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0036454535

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