Noise characteristics in repetitively pulsed semiconductor lasers

Author

Yuan, Ruixi ; Taylor, Henry F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

Volume

28

Issue

1

fYear

1992

fDate

1/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

109

Lastpage

117

Abstract

Timing jitter (phase noise) and power fluctuations (intensity noise) in a semiconductor laser driven with a periodic current waveform, in the large signal regime are investigated theoretically. The temporal behavior of the laser output power is calculated numerically from the modified rate equation with Monte Carlo simulation of the random processes, both free-running and active mode-locked configurations are treated. The temporal width and root-mean-square (rms) timing jitter and energy fluctuation of the pulses are calculated, as are the correlation and spectral properties of the noise

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; electron device noise; fluctuations; laser mode locking; laser theory; semiconductor junction lasers; Monte Carlo simulation; active mode-locked configurations; diode laser noise; energy fluctuation; free-running laser mode-locking; intensity noise; large signal regime; laser output power; modified rate equation; noise correlation; periodic current waveform; phase noise; power fluctuations; pulse fluctuations; random processes; repetitively pulsed semiconductor lasers; root-mean-square; spectral properties; temporal behavior; temporal width; timing jitter; Fluctuations; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser theory; Optical pulses; Phase noise; Power lasers; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor lasers; Timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.119503

Filename

119503