Title :
Noise in actively mode-locked external cavity lasers
Author :
Dogru, Nuran ; Ozyazici, M. Sadettin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron., Gaziantep Univ., Turkey
Abstract :
Noise of mode-locked hybrid soliton pulse source is described using coupled-mode equations. Mode-locking is difficult to achieve for some value of bias currents because of increasing noise. Hence, transform-limited pulses are not generated over a wide tuning range.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser noise; laser tuning; optical communication; optical solitons; coupled-mode equations; hybrid soliton pulse source; mode-locked external cavity lasers; noise; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser tuning; Optical noise; Optical pulses; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor lasers; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2003. The 5th Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7766-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2003.1274678
