Title :
Attosecond timing jitter pulse trains from semiconductor saturable absorber mode-locked Cr:LiSAF lasers
Author :
Li, Duo ; Benedick, Andrew ; Demirbas, Umit ; Sennaroglu, Alphan ; Fujimoto, James G. ; Kärtner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
An integrated timing jitter of 43 as [10 kHz-50 MHz] is measured from a semiconductor saturable absorber modelocked Cr:LiSAF laser. AM-to-PM transfer functions´ characterization shows self-steepening is the dominant effect of excess timing jitter.
Keywords :
aluminium compounds; chromium; laser mode locking; lithium compounds; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; solid lasers; strontium compounds; timing jitter; AM-to-PM transfer functions; Cr:LiSAF lasers; LiSrAlF6:Cr; attosecond timing jitter pulse trains; laser mode locking; self-steepening; semiconductor saturable absorber; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Measurement by laser beam; Semiconductor lasers; Timing jitter;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
