Characterization of pulse timing jitter of actively stabilised 1-GHz vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser producing 500-fs pulses

Author

Quarterman, Adrian H. ; Wilcox, Keith G. ; Mihoubi, Zakaria ; Elsmere, Stephen P. ; Tropper, Anne C.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Phys. & Astron., Univ. of Southampton, Southampton

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The rms timing jitter of 500-fs optical pulses from a passively mode-locked, actively stabilised vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser was determined by the Von der Linde method to be 350 fs over 500 Hz - 500 KHz.

Keywords

laser mode locking; laser stability; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; timing jitter; Von der Linde method; frequency 1 GHz; optical pulses; passively mode-locked laser; pulse timing jitter; time 500 fs; vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Photodiodes; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Timing jitter; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; (140.3425) Laser stabilization; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers; (140.5960) Semiconductor lasers; (140.7270) Vertical emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571753