Title

Ultralow Noise, Etalon Stabilized, 10-Ghz Optical Frequency Comb Based On An Scow Amplifier

Keywords

Mode-locked lasers; ultralow-noise pulse-trains

Abstract

A slab-coupled optical waveguide amplifier (SCOWA) is used to construct a 10-GHz harmonically mode-locked laser with an intra-cavity etalon that serves as a high-finesse spectral filter. The laser output is a frequency comb that is actively stabilized to the transmission peaks of the etalon through a Pound-Drever-Hall scheme. The linewidth of the individual comb-lines is ∼1 kHz and the frequency instability ${< 300 kHz over 60 s. The output power exceeds 20 mW due to the high saturation power of the SCOWA. The residual timing jitter of the pulse-train is ∼1.9 fs (1 Hz to 100 MHz). A much broader comb (∼10 nm) is generated after dispersion compensation of the cavity and the output pulses are compressible to < 1 ps. A comparison of the timing jitter of the all-anomalous dispersion and dispersion compensated cavities is presented along with a previous result with a similar architecture. © 1989-2012 IEEE.

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Publication Title

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volume

24

Issue

23

Number of Pages

2159-2162

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2012.2223814

Socpus ID

84870472673 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84870472673

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