Amplitude noise of subharmonically hybrid mode-locked pulses generated from a monolithic semiconductor laser

Author

Bao, H.C. ; Liu, H.F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia

Volume

14

Issue

1

fYear

2002

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Broad-band amplitude noise (100 MHz to 20 GHz) of 40 GHz pulses generated by a subharmonically hybrid mode-locked (SHML) monolithic semiconductor laser is investigated. Experiments show that the amplitude noise can only be suppressed at some certain subharmonic numbers, while the phase noise can be suppressed by subharmonic hybrid mode-locking under many subharmonic numbers.

Keywords

interference suppression; laser mode locking; laser noise; optical pulse generation; phase noise; semiconductor lasers; 100 MHz to 20 GHz; SHML monolithic semiconductor laser; amplitude noise; amplitude noise suppression; broadband amplitude noise; monolithic semiconductor laser; phase noise suppression; relative intensity noise; subharmonic hybrid mode-locking; subharmonic numbers; subharmonically hybrid mode-locked pulse generation; subharmonically hybrid modelocked monolithic semiconductor laser; Frequency; Hybrid power systems; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Noise generators; Noise level; Optical pulse generation; Pulse generation; Pulse measurements; Semiconductor device noise;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.974143

Filename

974143