Title :
Suppression of supermode noise in a harmonically mode-locked hybrid silicon laser using an intra-cavity filter
Author :
SRINIVASAN, SUDARSHAN ; Arrighi, Alois ; Heck, Martijn J. R. ; Hutchinson, John ; Norberg, Erik ; Fish, Gregory ; Bowers, John E.
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
We present results from two hybrid silicon mode-locked lasers each with a 2GHz cavity and one with an intra-cavity filter; which allows for 20GHz operation and 55dB supermode noise suppression compared to harmonic mode-locking.
Keywords :
cavity resonator filters; interference suppression; lasers; microwave photonics; frequency 2 GHz; frequency 20 GHz; harmonically mode-locked hybrid silicon laser; intra-cavity filter; silicon mode-locked lasers; supermode noise; Cavity resonators; Optical fiber filters; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Optical ring resonators; Power harmonic filters;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Th3A.4
