Characterization of timing jitter in a 5 GHz quantum dot passively mode-locked laser

doi:10.1364/OE.18.021932

Characterization of timing jitter in a 5 GHz quantum dot passively mode-locked laser

Chang-Yi Lin, Frederic Grillot, Yan Li, Ravi Raghunathan, and Luke F. Lester »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 21, pp. 21932-21937 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.021932

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The timing jitter performance of a 5 GHz quantum dot passively mode-locked laser is investigated at different harmonics in the RF spectrum. The necessity of measuring the phase noise at relatively large harmonic numbers is motivated experimentally in the context of determining the corner frequency, its correlation to the RF linewidth, and the related white noise plateau level. The single-sideband phase noise with an integrated timing jitter of 211 fs (4-80 MHz) is reported. An all-microwave technique has been used to determine a pulse-to-pulse rms timing jitter of 96 fs/cycle. This low timing jitter value makes the chip-scale quantum dot mode-locked laser an attractive source for low noise applications such as optical clocking and sampling.

OCIS Codes
(140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers
(140.5960) Lasers and laser optics : Semiconductor lasers
(250.5590) Optoelectronics : Quantum-well, -wire and -dot devices

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Lasers and Laser Optics

History
Original Manuscript: July 30, 2010
Revised Manuscript: September 3, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: September 22, 2010
Published: September 30, 2010

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Chang-Yi Lin, Frederic Grillot, Yan Li, Ravi Raghunathan, and Luke F. Lester, "Characterization of timing jitter in a 5 GHz quantum dot passively mode-locked laser," Opt. Express 18, 21932-21937 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-21-21932

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Appl. Phys. Lett.

C.-Y. Lin, F. Grillot, N. A. Naderi, Y. Li, and L. F. Lester, “rf linewidth reduction in a quantum dot passively mode-locked laser subject to external optical feedback,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 96(5), 051118 (2010). [CrossRef]

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A. Akrout, A. Shen, A. Enard, G.-H. Duan, F. Lelarge, and A. Ramdane, “Low phase noise all-optical oscillator using quantum dash modelocked laser,” Electron. Lett. 46(1), 73–73 (2010). [CrossRef]

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IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.

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IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.

F. Kefelian, S. O'Donoghue, M. T. Todaro, J. G. McInerney, and G. Huyet, “RF linewidth in monolithic passively mode-locked semiconductor laser,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 20(16), 1405–1407 (2008). [CrossRef]
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J. Opt. Soc. Am. B

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Opt. Express

Proc. SPIE

L. Zhang, L.-S. Cheng, A. L. Gray, H. Huang, S. Kutty, H. Li, J. Nagyvary, F. Nabulsi, L. Olona, E. Pease, Q. Sun, C. Wiggins, J. C. Zilko, Z. Zou, and P. M. Varangis, “High-power low-jitter quantum-dot passively mode-locked lasers,” Proc. SPIE 6115, 611502 (2006). [CrossRef]

Other

M. G. Thompson, D. Larsson, A. Rae, K. Yvind, R. V. Penty, I. H. White, J. Hvam, A. R. Kovsh, S. Mikhrin, D. Livshits, and I. Krestnikov, “Monolithic hybrid and passive mode-locked 40 GHz quantum dot laser diodes,” Proc. Eur. Conf. Opt. Commun. (ECOC), 1–2 (2006).
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C.-Y. Lin, F. Grillot, Y. Li, R. Raghunathan, and L. F. Lester, “Characterization of timing jitter in a quantum dot passively mode-locked laser at low offset frequency,” submitted to IEEE Photonics Society Annual Conference (2010).

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