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 …

Quantum noise of actively mode-locked lasers with dispersion and amplitude/phase modulation

F Rana, RJ Ram, HA Haus - IEEE journal of quantum …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A quantum theory for the noise of optical pulses in actively mode-locked lasers is presented.
In the presence of phase modulation and/or group velocity dispersion, the linear operator …

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 …

10-GHz ultralow-noise optical sampling stream from a semiconductor diode ring laser

CM DePriest, A Braun, JH Abeles… - IEEE Photonics …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report, what is to our knowledge, the lowest-noise pulsetrain produced to date with an
actively mode-locked external-cavity semiconductor diode laser. Operating characteristics at …

Impact of long external fiber cavities on the pulse train stabilization of a passively mode-locked quantum dot laser emitting at 1250 nm

S Stutz, O Nikiforov, C Weber… - 2017 19th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Passively mode-locked (PML) semiconductor lasers are compact photonic sources
delivering a train of picosecond short optical pulses for optical clock distribution, high bit-rate …

Residual phase-noise measurements of actively mode-locked fiber and semiconductor lasers

JJ Hargreaves, PW Juodawlkis, JJ Plant… - LEOS 2001. 14th …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report residual phase-noise measurements of both actively mode-locked fiber and
semiconductor lasers using sinusoidal mode-locking frequencies between 500 MHz and 5 …

Comparative experimental analysis of jitter performance in extended-cavity semiconductor modelocked lasers

A Braun, V Khalfin, L Dimarco… - … of Papers Presented …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Summary from only given. We show the major influence that the laser resonator has on the
phase noise, and hence timing jitter, and for similar cavity Q show the connection of the …

Relaxation Oscillations and Pulse Stability in Harmonically Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers

F Rana, P George - IEEE journal of quantum electronics, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we discuss pulse dynamics in harmonically mode-locked semiconductor lasers
and present the conditions necessary for stability. In a laser mode-locked at the N th …

Complete AM and residual PM noise measurements of an external cavity semiconductor laser hybridly modelocked at 10 GHz

T Yilmaz, CM DePriest, PJ Delfyett… - LEOS 2001. 14th …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modelocked semiconductor and fiber lasers have been shown to operate with very low
noise levels making them suitable as sources of sampling pulses for applications in analog …

Development of a Compact, Low Jitter Modelocked Semiconductor Diode Laser

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA ORLANDO - 2003 - apps.dtic.mil
This research project was aimed at generating a train of ultralow noise optical pulses from a
semiconductor diode laser for applications in optical sampling. Typical optical sampling …