An experimental and theoretical analysis of jitter in self-pulsating lasers synchronized to periodic electrical signals

Author

Egan, A. ; Harley-Stead, M. ; Rees, P. ; Lynch, S. ; O´Gorman, James ; Hegarty, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Trinity Coll., Dublin, Ireland

Volume

8

Issue

6

fYear

1996

fDate

6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

758

Lastpage

760

Abstract

We investigate both experimentally and theoretically the behavior of pulse jitter in compact disk (CD) self-pulsating lasers that have been synchronized to an applied periodic electrical signal. Our investigations reveal that pulse-to-pulse jitter in a synchronized laser is almost entirely unchanged from that in an unsynchronized laser under the same bias conditions. The major effect of synchronization is the suppression of long term jitter.

Keywords

jitter; laser theory; optical communication equipment; semiconductor lasers; synchronisation; applied periodic electrical signal; bias conditions; compact disk self-pulsating lasers; jitter; laser diodes; long term jitter suppression; periodic electrical signal synchronisation; pulse jitter; pulse-to-pulse jitter; self-pulsating lasers; Clocks; Data mining; Diode lasers; Frequency synchronization; High speed optical techniques; Laser modes; Laser theory; Optical pulses; Pulse measurements; Timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.502085

Filename

502085