Title :
Low timing-jitter high repetition-rate femtosecond pulse trains via locking to external Fabry-Perot cavities
Author :
Chen, J. ; Sickler, J.W. ; Ippen, E.P. ; Kärtner, F.X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA
Abstract :
Generation of low timing-jitter 150-fs pulse trains at 1560 nm with 2 GHz repetition rate is demonstrated by locking a fundamentally mode-locked 200 MHz fiber laser to a high finesse (F=2000) external Fabry-Perot cavity.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; timing jitter; Fabry-Perot cavities; frequency 200 MHz; fundamentally mode-locked fiber laser; high repetition-rate femtosecond pulse trains; time 150 fs; timing-jitter; wavelength 1560 nm; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fabry-Perot; High speed optical techniques; Laser mode locking; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pulse measurements; Ultrafast optics; (140.3510) Lasers, fiber; (320.7090) Ultrafast lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-859-9
