Title :
Long-term stabilization of mode-locked Er-fiber lasers with 1.2 fs timing jitter
Author :
Shuangyou Zhang ; Dong Hou ; Jiutao Wu ; Jianye Zhao
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron., Peking Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate a new phase-locking technique for long-term and high-precision stabilization of mode-locked Er-fiber lasers by direct optical-microwave phase detection without high-speed photodiodes and mixers. The excellent locking performance reaches 2.1×10-18 at 4000-s averaging time.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser stability; microwave photonics; optical phase locked loops; photodetectors; timing jitter; direct optical-microwave phase detection; high-precision mode-locked erbium-fiber laser stabilization; long-term mode-locked erbium-fiber laser stabilization; phase-locking technique; time 1.2 fs; timing jitter; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser stability; Masers; Optical pumping; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
