Title

Fiberized Semiconductor Ring Laser With Passive Suppression Of Supermode Noise

Keywords

Harmonic mode-locking; Semiconductor lasers; Supermode noise; Timing jitter

Abstract

We report on low noise performance of a 10 GHz actively mode-locked laser. The laser is a fiberized ring laser using a commercially available semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) as the gain medium. The noise properties as a function of cavity length and optical spectrum are investigated. It is found that supermode noise is reduced when the cavity length is increased past a certain threshold. Best performance is achieved with a 20 meter cavity whose pulses are down chirped. No active feedback control is utilized to reduce the noise, yet the integrated jitter is only 29 fs (10Hz-100MHz).

Publication Date

11-10-2005

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

5814

Number of Pages

223-228

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.606739

Socpus ID

27544466704 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/27544466704

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