Title

Ultralow-Jitter And -Amplitude-Noise Semiconductor-Based Actively Mode-Locked Laser

Abstract

We report a semiconductor-based, low-noise, 10.24 GHz actively mode-locked laser with 4.65 fs of relative timing jitter and a 0.0365% amplitude fluctuation (1 Hz to 100 MHz) of the optical pulse train. The keys to obtaining this result were the laser’s high optical power and the low phase noise of the rf source used to mode lock the laser. The low phase noise of the rf source not only improves the absolute and relative timing jitter of the laser, but also prevents coupling of the rf source phase noise to the pulse amplitude fluctuationsby the mode-locked laser. © 2006 Optical Society of America.

Publication Date

10-1-2006

Publication Title

Optics Letters

Volume

31

Issue

19

Number of Pages

2870-2872

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.31.002870

Socpus ID

33750160861 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33750160861

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