Time-domain measurement techniques have been applied to the evaluation of pulse timing
fluctuations in a monolithic mode-locked laser diode operating at 20 GHz. The time interval …

Summary form only given. Mode-locked lasers exhibit timing and amplitude jitter that can
limit the performance of photonic analog-to-digital converters and ultrafast optical …

A new method is proposed and demonstrated for measuring the phase noise (pulse timing
fluctuations) of mode-locked lasers. The instantaneous phases of the pulse intensity are …

We have performed wide-band residual phase-noise measurements on semiconductor 40-
GHz mode-locked lasers by employing electrical waveguide components for the radio …

This paper describes the operation principle and the experimental results of a new and
simple technique to reduce pulse-timing noise of a mode-locked laser diode using fiber …

A new technique has been proposed and demonstrated for measuring the pulse-timing
fluctuations of mode-locked lasers at low Fourier frequencies. The time interval between the …

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 …

Low-noise operation of a 9-GHz hybridly mode-locked laser diode is demonstrated. The
integrated timing jitter was 47 fs (10 Hz to 10 MHz) and 86 fs (10 Hz to 4.5 GHz), with a pulse …

The phase-noise characteristics of a harmonically mode-locked fiber laser are investigated
with a new measurement technique called phase-encoded optical sampling. A polarization …

The measurement, design, and theory of ultralow-noise actively modelocked lasers are
presented. We demonstrate quantum-limited noise performance of a hybridly modelocked …