Passively mode-locked waveguide laser with low residual jitter

Author

Schlager, J.B. ; Callicoatt, B.E. ; Mirin, R.P. ; Sanford, N.A.

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Boulder, CO, USA

Volume

14

Issue

9

fYear

2002

Firstpage

1351

Lastpage

1353

Abstract

Picosecond pulses at 1.53 μm with low residual jitter are generated from a passively mode-locked erbium/ytterbium codoped planar waveguide laser in an extended cavity configuration. The round-trip frequency of the laser cavity is actively referenced to the frequency of a stable electronic oscillator; this lowers the residual root-mean-square timing jitter to 83 fs over the frequency range of our phase-noise measurement system 100 Hz-10 MHz.

Keywords

erbium; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser noise; optical planar waveguides; optical pulse generation; phase noise; solid lasers; timing jitter; waveguide lasers; ytterbium; 1.53 micron; 100 Hz to 10 MHz; Er-Yb codoped phosphate glass; active referencing; extended cavity configuration; laser cavity round-trip frequency; low residual jitter; low-jitter optical pulse sources; passively mode-locked Er/Yb-codoped planar waveguide laser; phase-noise measurement system; picosecond pulse generation; residual root-mean-square timing jitter; stable electronic oscillator; Erbium; Frequency; Jitter; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical pulse generation; Oscillators; Planar waveguides; Waveguide lasers; Ytterbium;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.801123

Filename

1032377