160 GHz mode-locked laser diode stabilized by subharmonic-frequency optical pulse injection

Author

Arahira, Shin ; Katoh, Yukio ; Kunimatsu, Daisuke ; Kutsuzawa, Satoko ; Ogawa, Yoh

Author_Institution

Opto-Electron. Labs., Oki Electr. Ind. Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

836

Abstract

Subharmonic-frequency optical pulse injection (subharmonic synchronous mode-locking, SSML) is a promising way of stabilizing ultrafast passively mode-locked laser diodes (PML-LD) because the application is not limited by the bandwidth of drive sources. In this paper, we report on stabilizing 160 GHz PML-LD by the SSML method. Timing jitter reduction was evaluated quantitatively by a newly-developed all-optical down converting technique of ultrafast optical pulses using the optical fiber´s nonlinearity. Timing jitter was reduced to 0.26 ps at an injection power of 57 μW, comparable to that of injected pulses

Keywords

laser frequency stability; laser mode locking; multiwave mixing; optical pulse compression; quantum well lasers; timing jitter; 1.7 ps; 1542 nm; 160 GHz; 160 GHz mode-locked laser diode stabilization; 57 muW; MQW laser diode; all-optical down converting technique; four-wave mixing; optical fiber nonlinearity; subharmonic synchronous mode-locking; subharmonic-frequency optical pulse injection; timing jitter reduction; ultrafast optical pulses; ultrafast passively mode-locked laser diodes; Diode lasers; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Frequency synchronization; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5634-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1999.811994

Filename

811994