Title :
Harmonically mode-locked glass waveguide laser with 21-fs timing jitter
Author :
Malowicki, J.E. ; Fanto, M.L. ; Hayduk, M.J. ; Delfyett, P.J., Jr.
Author_Institution :
Sensors Directorate, Air Force Res. Lab., Rome, NY, USA
Abstract :
We report on experimental jitter results of a 10-GHz mode-locked laser. The laser is an actively harmonically mode-locked fiber laser using an erbium-doped glass waveguide as the gain medium. Amplitude noise and corresponding phase noise effects are greatly reduced by the inclusion of an intracavity high-finesse fiber Fabry-Pe´rot etalon. Typical results show timing jitter of 21-fs root mean square, integrated from 10 Hz to 100 MHz.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; analogue-digital conversion; erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical glass; optical waveguides; phase noise; timing jitter; 10 GHz; 10E-6 to 100 MHz; 21 fs; SiO2:Er; amplitude noise effects; analog-to-digital conversion; erbium-doped glass waveguide; fiber laser; glass waveguide laser; harmonically mode-locked laser; high-finesse fiber etalon; intracavity Fabry-Perot etalon; phase noise effects; timing jitter; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Glass; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Noise level; Noise reduction; Phase noise; Root mean square; Timing jitter; Waveguide lasers; Active mode-locking; erbium-doped; optical analog-to-digital conversion (ADC); timing jitter; waveguide laser;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2004.837734
