DocumentCode
862267
Title
Active stabilisation and timing jitter characterisation of sub-500 fs pulse passively modelocked VECSEL
Author
Quarterman, A.H. ; Wilcox, K.G. ; Elsmere, S.P. ; Mihoubi, Z. ; Tropper, A.C.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Southampton Univ., Southampton
Volume
44
Issue
19
fYear
2008
Firstpage
1135
Lastpage
1137
Abstract
An optical Stark modelocked vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser producing sub-500 fs pulses at a fundamental repetition rate of 1 GHz was actively stabilised by locking its output to a 10 MHz electrical oscillator using a programmable phase-locked-loop frequency synthesiser. The timing jitter was characterised by the von der Linde method and was found to be 190(12) fs in the bandwidth 300 Hz to 1.5 MHz.
Keywords
frequency synthesizers; laser cavity resonators; optical pulse generation; phase locked loops; surface emitting lasers; VECSEL; Von der Linde method; active stabilisation; bandwidth 300 Hz to 1.5 MHz; electrical oscillator; frequency 1 GHz; frequency 10 MHz; optical Stark modelocked vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser; programmable phase-locked-loop frequency synthesiser; time 500 fs; timing jitter characterisation;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20081452
Filename
4625184
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