An optoelectronic oscillator using an 850-nm VCSEL for generating low jitter optical pulses

Author

Devgan, Preetpaul ; Serkland, Darwin ; Keeler, Gordon ; Geib, Kent ; Kumar, Prem

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA

Volume

18

Issue

5

fYear

2006

fDate

3/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

685

Lastpage

687

Abstract

We demonstrate an optoelectronic oscillator using a gain-switched vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser in a fiber-feedback configuration. We simultaneously generate a 2-GHz optical pulse stream at 850 nm with 750-fs timing jitter (over 100 Hz-10 MHz range) along with an electrical signal that is locked to the repetition rate of the optical pulses. The timing jitter performance is confirmed by measuring higher harmonic phase noise.

Keywords

laser feedback; laser noise; optical pulse generation; phase noise; semiconductor device noise; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; timing jitter; 100 Hz to 10 MHz; 2 GHz; 750 fs; 850 nm; fiber-feedback configuration; gain switching; harmonic phase noise; optical pulse generation; optoelectronic oscillator; timing jitter; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser; Fiber lasers; Noise measurement; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Phase measurement; Signal generators; Surface emitting lasers; Timing jitter; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; 850-nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL); optical pulses; optoelectronic oscillator (OEO); self-starting pulse source; timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.870068

Filename

1597296