Residual phase noise and longitudinal mode linewidth measurements of hybridly modelocked external cavity semiconductor diode laser

Author

Yilmaz, T. ; DePriest, C.M. ; Delfyett, P.J., Jr. ; Abeles, J.H. ; Braun, A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Opt./CREOL, Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

607

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report measurements of residual phase noise knee position and average linewidth of a hybrid modelocked external cavity semiconductor laser. We show that the knee position in our laser linearly increases with cavity frequency and is determined by the average longitudinal mode linewidth. This suggests that, to attain ultra-low jitter modelocked lasers, methods for reducing the longitudinal mode linewidth are needed.

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser modes; laser noise; phase noise; semiconductor device noise; semiconductor lasers; timing jitter; cavity frequency; hybrid modelocked external cavity semiconductor diode laser; longitudinal mode linewidth; residual phase noise knee position; ultra-low jitter modelocked lasers; Frequency; Knee; Laser modes; Laser noise; Noise measurement; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Position measurement; Semiconductor diodes; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1034381

Filename

1034381