Noise in fundamental and harmonic modelocked semiconductor lasers: experiments and simulations

T Yilmaz, CM Depriest, A Braun… - IEEE Journal of …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electric-field correlation measurements of fundamental and harmonic modelocked external
cavity semiconductor lasers are presented. Based on these results, an empirical model of a …

Measurement of residual phase noise and longitudinal-mode linewidth in a hybridly mode-locked external linear cavity semiconductor laser

T Yilmaz, CM DePriest, PJ Delfyett, A Braun, J Abeles - Optics letters, 2002 - opg.optica.org
We report measurements of the residual phase-noise knee position and longitudinal-mode
linewidth of a hybridly mode-locked external linear cavity semiconductor laser as a function …

Noise of mode-locked semiconductor lasers

LA Jiang, ME Grein, HA Haus… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Analytical expressions for the amplitude, frequency, timing, and carrier phase noise of mode-
locked laser diodes (MLLDs) are derived. It is found both experimentally and theoretically …

Complete noise characterisation of external cavity semiconductor laser hybridly modelocked at 10 GHz

T Yilmaz, CM DePriest, PJ Delfyett Jr - Electronics Letters, 2001 - search.proquest.com
To the knowledge of the authors, the first amplitude moduation (AM) and phase modulation
(PM) noise measurements out to Nyquist frequency offsets for an external cavity …

Characterization of the noise and correlations in harmonically mode-locked lasers

F Rana, HLT Lee, RJ Ram, ME Grein, LA Jiang… - JOSA B, 2002 - opg.optica.org
In a harmonically mode-locked laser multiple optical pulses propagate inside the laser
cavity. The noise in different pulses inside the laser cavity is in general correlated …

First investigation of the noise and modulation properties of the carrier-envelope offset in a modelocked semiconductor laser

P Brochard, N Jornod, S Schilt, VJ Wittwer… - Optics Letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We present the first characterization of the noise properties and modulation response of the
carrier-envelope offset (CEO) frequency in a semiconductor modelocked laser. The CEO …

Effect of noise on the power spectrum of passively mode-locked lasers

D Eliyahu, RA Salvatore, A Yariv - JOSA B, 1997 - opg.optica.org
We analyze the effects of noise on the power spectrum of pulse trains generated by a
continuously operating passively mode-locked laser. The shape of the different harmonics of …

Theory of timing jitter in actively mode-locked lasers

DR Hjelme, AR Mickelson - IEEE journal of Quantum …, 1992 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An analysis of the pulse-to-pulse timing jitter in an actively mode-locked laser is presented.
The model includes spontaneous emission noise, mode-locker driver phase noise, and …

Intracavity dispersion effect on timing jitter of ultralow noise mode-locked semiconductor based external-cavity laser

S Gee, S Ozharar, JJ Plant, PW Juodawlkis… - Optics letters, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We report the generation of optical pulse trains with 380 as of residual timing jitter (1 Hz-1
MHz) from a mode-locked external-cavity semiconductor laser, through a combination of …

Comparison of timing jitter in external and monolithic cavity mode‐locked semiconductor lasers

DJ Derickson, PA Morton, JE Bowers… - Applied Physics …, 1991 - pubs.aip.org
A comprehensive timing jitter comparison is made for mode‐locked semiconductor lasers
using active, passive, and hybrid mode‐locking techniques in both external and monolithic …