• DocumentCode
    885264
  • Title

    Locking bandwidth of mode-locked semiconductor lasers

  • Author

    Zhai, L. ; Lowery, A.J. ; Ahmed, Z. ; Onodera, N. ; Tucker, R.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia
  • Volume
    28
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1992
  • fDate
    3/12/1992 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    545
  • Lastpage
    546
  • Abstract
    Measurements on fundamentally-driven and harmonically-driven mode-locked laser show that these lasers have low timing jitter when the RF drive frequency is tuned to within the ´locking bandwidth´ of the fundamental of the cavity resonance frequency, or a harmonic of the frequency. It is shown that the locking bandwidth is determined by a new parameter termed the ´pull-in time´. The pull-in time is independent of the cavity length and the harmonic number of the drive.
  • Keywords
    laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; semiconductor junction lasers; RF drive frequency; cavity resonance frequency; fundamentally driven lasers; harmonically driven lasers; locking bandwidth; mode-locked semiconductor lasers; pull-in time; timing jitter;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19920344
  • Filename
    126490
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=885264