Title :
Noise in pulsed injection locking of a passively modelocked laser
Author :
Margalit, Moti ; Orenstein, Meir ; Haus, H.A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
fDate :
5/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
In this paper, noise effects related to pulsed injection locking of a passively modelocked laser (PML) are analyzed. A set of nonlinear equations, derived from a soliton perturbation method, is used to describe the modelocked laser pulse evolution, under injection locking. The equations are linearized, and the stability of the injection locked solution is studied. Subsequently, the linear equations are employed to describe the coupling of both the injected signal noise and the internal noise, to the locked pulses. Noise reduction due to the injection process is demonstrated, with important implications for all optical signal regeneration and synchronization
Keywords :
laser mode locking; laser noise; laser stability; nonlinear equations; optical couplers; optical solitons; perturbation theory; semiconductor lasers; synchronisation; all optical signal regeneration; injected signal noise coupling; injection lasers; injection locked solution; injection locking; linear equations; locked pulses; modelocked laser pulse evolution; noise effects; noise reduction; nonlinear equations; passively modelocked laser; pulsed injection locking; semiconductor laser noise; soliton perturbation method; stability; synchronization; Injection-locked oscillators; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Noise reduction; Nonlinear equations; Optical noise; Optical pulses; Perturbation methods; Solitons; Stability;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
