Pulse to pulse coherency of actively mode-locked laser diodes

Author

Lee, Joong-Hee ; Daryoush, Afshin S. ; Sato, Kenji

Author_Institution

Microwave Photonic Device Lab., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

69

Abstract

Mode-locked lasers are potentially viable in distribution of frequency reference signals in many distributed systems. Phase noise degradation of the reference signal distributed by a monolithically integrated electro-absorption (EA) modulator with multiple quantum well (MQW) laser diode is investigated. The FM noise degradation dependence on EA modulator bias voltage is correlated to pulse to pulse coherency time

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; integrated optics; laser mode locking; laser noise; light coherence; microwave photonics; optical communication equipment; phase noise; quantum well lasers; timing; FM noise degradation dependence; MQW laser diode; actively mode-locked laser diodes; electro-absorption modulator; frequency reference signals distribution; modulator bias voltage; monolithically integrated EA modulator; multiple quantum well LD; phase noise degradation; pulse to pulse coherency; Degradation; Diode lasers; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Optical pulses; Phase modulation; Phase noise; Pulse modulation; Quantum well lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 1999. MWP '99. International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, Vic.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5558-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.1999.819654

Filename

819654