Comparison of fundamental and harmonic modelocking of a 10-GHz external cavity semiconductor laser

Tolga Yilmaz; Christopher M. DePriest; Peter J. Delfyett Jr.; Joseph H. Abeles; Alan Braun

doi:10.1117/12.477434

1 August 2002 Comparison of fundamental and harmonic modelocking of a 10-GHz external cavity semiconductor laser

Tolga Yilmaz, Christopher M. DePriest, Peter J. Delfyett Jr., Joseph H. Abeles, Alan Braun

Proceedings Volume 4732, Photonic and Quantum Technologies for Aerospace Applications IV; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.477434
Event: AeroSense 2002, 2002, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

We report the measurement of electric field correlations of a hybridly modelocked external linear cavity semiconductor laser as a function pulse delay. We also report the measurement of residual phase noise corner frequency and longitudinal mode linewidth as a function of laser cavity length. We find that the pulses in the modelocked pulsetrain are correlated at only multiples of the cavity roundtrip time. Excellent agreement between residual phase noise corner frequency and longitudinal mode linewidth measurements suggest that the corner frequency is the average longitudinal mode linewidth. This relationship leads to a fundamental limit in the timing jitter of modelocked lasers.

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Tolga Yilmaz, Christopher M. DePriest, Peter J. Delfyett Jr., Joseph H. Abeles, and Alan Braun "Comparison of fundamental and harmonic modelocking of a 10-GHz external cavity semiconductor laser", Proc. SPIE 4732, Photonic and Quantum Technologies for Aerospace Applications IV, (1 August 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.477434

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