Ultra-low noise all fiber mode-locked laser

Author

Yaolin Zhang ; Quansheng Ren ; Shuangyou Zhang ; Dong Hou ; Jianye Zhao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Peking Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2015

fDate

12-16 April 2015

Firstpage

436

Lastpage

438

Abstract

A new design of all fiber-based, mode-locked laser with ultra-low phase noise of -158 dBc/Hz at 1MHz is reported. Both high repetition rate optical pulses and microwave with ultra-low phase noise were generated using an injection locked actively mode-locked fiber laser. The obtained microwave showed much lower phase noise than that of the equivalent commercial synthesizer. As the laser used is all fiber-based, our design is a cost-effective solution for low noise microwave, and high repetition rate optical pulse train generators.

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser noise; microwave generation; microwave photonics; optical pulse generation; phase noise; frequency 1 MHz; high repetition rate optical pulse train generators; injection locked actively mode-locked fiber laser; microwave generation; ultralow noise all fiber mode-locked laser; ultralow phase noise; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Masers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Phase noise; frequency detuning; mode-locked laser; phase noise; timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frequency Control Symposium & the European Frequency and Time Forum (FCS), 2015 Joint Conference of the IEEE International

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8865-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FCS.2015.7138875

Filename

7138875