Spectral measurement of the noise in continuous-wave mode-locked laser pulses

Author

Chen, Li-Ping ; Wang, Yong ; Liu, Jia-Ming

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

32

Issue

10

fYear

1996

fDate

10/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1817

Lastpage

1825

Abstract

A theoretical analysis of the noise of a periodic optical pulse train is presented. It is shown that the amplitude fluctuation, the pulsewidth fluctuation, the pulse timing jitter, and the cross correlations between any two of these three noise parameters can be separately quantified by comparing the noise power spectra of the fundamental pulses and those of the second-harmonic pulses. The noise characteristics of an actively mode-locked Nd:YLF laser are presented to demonstrate this technique

Keywords

fluctuations; jitter; laser mode locking; laser noise; laser theory; lithium compounds; neodymium; optical correlation; optical harmonic generation; solid lasers; LiYF₄:Nd; actively mode-locked Nd:YLF laser; amplitude fluctuation; continuous-wave mode-locked laser pulses; cross correlations; fundamental pulses; noise characteristics; noise parameters; noise power spectra; periodic optical pulse train; pulse timing jitter; pulsewidth fluctuation; second-harmonic pulses; spectral measurement; Fluctuations; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser theory; Noise level; Noise measurement; Optical noise; Optical pulses; Pulse measurements; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.538789

Filename

538789