Complete noise characterization of a Gigahertz optical pulse train by time-domain demodulation of its harmonics

Author

Pottiez, Olivier ; Deparis, Olivier ; Kiyan, Roman ; Mégret, Patrice ; Blonde, Michel

Author_Institution

Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Service d´´Electromagnetisme et de Telecommun., Mons, Belgium

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

423

Abstract

By time-domain amplitude demodulation of the first three harmonics of a detected optical pulse train and by phase demodulation of two of them, we were able to determine power spectral densities of amplitude, pulse width and phase jitters, as well as the three cross-spectral densities of these three noises taken two by two. An outstanding result is that low-frequency noise of an actively mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser is free of pulse energy fluctuations

Keywords

demodulation; fibre lasers; laser noise; laser variables measurement; noise measurement; optical harmonic generation; optical pulse generation; optical signal detection; phase noise; spectral analysis; time series; time-domain analysis; timing jitter; Er-doped fiber laser; Gigahertz optical pulse train; actively mode-locked laser; amplitude jitters; complete noise characterization; cross-spectral density; harmonics; phase jitters; power spectral densities; pulse width jitter; time series; time-domain demodulation; ultrafast optical telecommunications; Demodulation; Jitter; Low-frequency noise; Optical detectors; Optical noise; Optical pulses; Phase detection; Power system harmonics; Space vector pulse width modulation; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7105-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2001.968853

Filename

968853