Low jittered optical pulse generation from a gain-switched single-mode VCSEL with an external laser beam injection

Author

Jung, Hae Won ; Lee, Seoung Hun ; Kim, Kyong Hon ; Kim, Dong Wook ; Deshmukh, Vijay Manohar ; Min Hee Lee

Author_Institution

INHA Univ., Incheon, South Korea

fYear

2010

fDate

11-14 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We report experimental results on timing-jitter suppressed optical short pulse generation from a gain-switched single-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) at 1.55 μm wavelength with an external laser beam injection. The low timing-jittered optical short pulses are very useful for high-speed optical time-division-multiplexed (TDM) communications and signal processing. The obtained timing jitter and pulse duration from the VCSEL were less than 1 ps and 65 ps, respectively, at a pulse repetition rate of 1.6 GHz.

Keywords

laser modes; optical pulse generation; surface emitting lasers; time division multiplexing; timing jitter; external laser beam injection; frequency 1.6 GHz; gain-switched single-mode VCSEL; optical pulse generation; optical time-division-multiplexed communications; signal processing; timing jitter suppression; vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; wavelength 1.55 mum; Laser beams; Measurement by laser beam; Optical polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical variables measurement; Timing jitter; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Internet (COIN), 2010 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7181-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8221-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COIN.2010.5546558

Filename

5546558