Noise of modelocked laser diodes

Author

Jiang, L.A. ; Grein, M.E. ; Haus, H.A. ; Ippen, E.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

25-28 Sept. 2000

Firstpage

149

Lastpage

150

Abstract

The noise of a passively mode locked laser diode (MLLD) can be described by five coupled linear differential equations driven by white noise sources. The amplitude noise and timing jitter were measured using nonstandard techniques due to the high rep-rate of our MLLD and compared to with the theory. The intensity fluctuations were about 7% and the pulse-to-pulse timing kicks were 43 fs. These results indicate that suppression of relaxation oscillations will be important for reducing the jitter of MLLDs.

Keywords

differential equations; fluctuations; laser mode locking; laser noise; oscillations; semiconductor device noise; semiconductor lasers; timing jitter; white noise; 43 fs; amplitude noise; coupled linear differential equations; high rep-rate; intensity fluctuations; modelocked laser diode noise; nonstandard technique; passively mode locked laser diode; pulse-to-pulse timing kicks; relaxation oscillations suppression; timing jitter; white noise sources; Diode lasers; Equations; Fluctuations; Laser modes; Laser noise; Low-frequency noise; Noise measurement; Noise shaping; Optical noise; Timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Laser Conference, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 IEEE 17th International

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6259-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISLC.2000.882331

Filename

882331