The timing jitter of 2.3 ps, 1,043 nm pulses from a passively mode-locked, surface-emitting
semiconductor laser has been characterised. The vertical external laser cavity was …

The authors report the first demonstration of an optically pumped passively modelocked
surface-emitting semiconductor laser operating in the 1.5 μm region. The modelocked laser …

Large spectral broadening has been observed in an actively mode-locked semiconductor
laser tuned for minimum average pulsewidth. Numerical simulations show that the spectral …

The magnitude and origin of pulse-to-pulse timing jitter from a four-wavelength modelocked
semiconductor laser is experimentally investigated. It is shown that the intracavity …

The repetition frequency of an external cavity mode-locked GaAs semiconductor diode laser
has been stabilized by voltage controlled electrical feedback. The phase noise has been …

The magnitude and origin of the pulse-to-pulse timing jitter that is added to the modulating
source by an active mode-locked laser is discussed. Residual and absolute RMS timing jitter …

We describe the first results of hybrid mode locking combining both active and passive mode
locking of a semiconductor laser. These functions are integrated into a monolithic device …

Photon seeding has been shown to reduce timing jitter in modelocked semiconductor
lasers1, 2 and in gain-switched semiconductor lasers. 3 Reduction of timing jitter is crucial …

Stability of pulse energy and timing in a passively mode-locked two-section quantum-well
laser is measured. Spectral analysis of the 546-MHz pulse train reveals rms timing jitter of …

We report that contrary to common belief, it is possible to achieve very low timing jitters of
less than (≊ 100 fs) in gain-switched semiconductor lasers, which is comparable to actively …