The importance of spontaneous emission noise in dynamic jitter in monolithic mode-locked diode lasers

Author

Rashed, Atef M. ; Wonfor, Adrian ; Zhu, Benyuan ; Penty, Richard V. ; White, Ian H.

Author_Institution

Centre for Commun. Res., Bristol Univ., UK

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

10-13 Nov 1997

Firstpage

211

Abstract

This study has concentrated on the operation of a monolithic 5-quantum well, 4-section mode locked semiconductor laser with an integrated distributed Bragg reflector (DBR), which generates 10 ps optical pulses at repetition rate of 10 GHz at a wavelength of 1.55 μm. An account of the observations and to indications as to how components can be optimised for low dynamic jitter operation is given

Keywords

distributed Bragg reflector lasers; high-speed optical techniques; jitter; laser mode locking; laser noise; laser transitions; optical transmitters; optimisation; quantum well lasers; semiconductor device noise; spontaneous emission; 1.55 mum; 10 ps; 5-quantum well 4-section mode locked semiconductor laser; DBR laser; dynamic jitter; integrated distributed Bragg reflector; low dynamic jitter operation; monolithic mode-locked diode lasers; ps optical pulse generation; spontaneous emission noise; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Jitter; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor lasers; Spontaneous emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3895-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1997.645368

Filename

645368