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

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

115

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7105-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2001.969200

Filename

969200