Comparison of two techniques for measuring amplitude and phase noises of gigahertz pulse train from actively mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser

Author

Pottiez, Olivicr ; Deparis, Olivier ; Kiyan, Ronian ; Mégret, Palricc ; Blondel, Michel

Author_Institution

Service d´´Electromagn. et de Telecommun., Fac. Polytech. de Mons, Belgium

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

772

Abstract

In this paper, we implemented the frequency-domain (FD) and time-domain (TD) techniques to measure amplitude and phase noises of an optical pulse train at 1.3 GHz from a stabilized actively mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser. Then, we compared the results obtained by these two techniques. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first confrontation of the FD and TD techniques for measurement of both amplitude and phase noises in an actively mode-locked fiber laser

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser noise; laser variables measurement; noise measurement; 1.3 GHz; Er-doped fiber laser; active mode locking; amplitude noise measurement; frequency-domain technique; optical pulse train; phase noise measurement; time-domain technique; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Frequency measurement; Laser mode locking; Noise measurement; Optical pulses; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Pulse measurements; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 2000 Annual Meeting. LEOS 2000. 13th Annual Meeting. IEEE

Conference_Location

Rio Grande

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5947-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2000.894082

Filename

894082