Title :
Residual phase-noise measurements of actively mode-locked fiber and semiconductor lasers
Author :
Hargreaves, J.J. ; Juodawlkis, P.W. ; Plant, J.J. ; Donnelly, J.P. ; Twichell, J.C. ; Rana, F. ; Ram, R.J.
Author_Institution :
Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA
Abstract :
We report residual phase-noise measurements of both actively mode-locked fiber and semiconductor lasers using sinusoidal mode-locking frequencies between 500 MHz and 5 GHz. The fiber laser is a polarization maintaining erbium-doped fiber ring laser that is harmonically mode-locked using a sinusoidal drive signal. The mode-locked semiconductor laser uses an external cavity configuration
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser noise; laser variables measurement; noise measurement; optical fibre polarisation; ring lasers; semiconductor lasers; 1.55 micron; 51 to 27 ps; actively mode-locked fiber lasers; external cavity configuration; fundamental cavity frequency; harmonically mode-locked; mode-locked semiconductor laser; phase-noise measurements; polarization maintaining erbium-doped fiber ring laser; residual phase-noise measurements; semiconductor lasers; sinusoidal drive signal; sinusoidal mode-locking frequencies; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Frequency measurement; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser radar; Optical fiber polarization; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Semiconductor lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7105-4
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2001.969200
