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Passively Mode-Locked Waveguide Laser with Low Residual Jitter

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Author(s)

John B. Schlager, Berton Callicoatt, Richard Mirin, Norman Sanford

Abstract

Picosecond pulses at 1.53 υm with low residual jitter are generated from a passively mode-locked erbium/ytterbium co-doped planar waveguide laser in an extended cavity configuration. The round-trip frequency of the laser cavity is actively referenced to the frequency of an electronic oscillator; this lowers the residual root-mean-square timing jitter to 85 fs over the frequency range of our phase-noise measurement system, 100 Hz - 10 MHz.
Citation
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume
14
Issue
9

Keywords

jitter, mode-locked lasers, optical planar waveguides, erbium/ytterbium

Citation

Schlager, J. , Callicoatt, B. , Mirin, R. and Sanford, N. (2002), Passively Mode-Locked Waveguide Laser with Low Residual Jitter, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=30096 (Accessed June 30, 2024)

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Created August 31, 2002, Updated October 12, 2021