• DocumentCode
    405441
  • Title

    Noise in actively mode-locked external cavity lasers

  • Author

    Dogru, Nuran ; Ozyazici, M. Sadettin

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron., Gaziantep Univ., Turkey
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    15-19 Dec. 2003
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2003. The 5th Pacific Rim Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7766-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2003.1274678
  • Filename
    1274678