Self-Stabilization of an Actively Mode-Locked Semiconductor-Based Fiber-Ring Laser for Ultralow Jitter

Author

Gee, S. ; Ozharar, S. ; Quinlan, F. ; Plant, J.J. ; Juodawlkis, P.W. ; Delfyett, P.J.

Author_Institution

Center for Res. & Educ. in Opt. & Lasers, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Volume

19

Issue

7

fYear

2007

fDate

4/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

498

Lastpage

500

Abstract

Noise characteristics are studied for a self-stabilized laser utilizing the interplay between the intracavity dispersion and the optical frequency shift. The noise suppression bandwidth of this scheme is from 0 to ~100 KHz and showed the reduction of residual timing jitter (integrated from 0.9 Hz to 1 MHz) from 2.2fs to 660 attosecond which represents, to our knowledge, the lowest timing jitter reported for an actively mode-locked laser

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser noise; laser stability; optical fibre dispersion; ring lasers; semiconductor lasers; timing jitter; 0 to 100 kHz; 0.9 to 1E6 Hz; 660 to 2200 as; active mode-locking; fiber-ring laser; intracavity dispersion; noise characteristics; noise suppression; optical frequency shift; residual timing jitter; self-stabilization; self-stabilized laser; semiconductor-based laser; ultralow jitter; Bandwidth; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Noise reduction; Optical noise; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor lasers; Timing jitter; Harmonic mode locking; phase-locked loops (PLL);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.892902

Filename

4126557