Ultralow noise optical pulse generation in an actively mode-locked quantum-dot semiconductor laser

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Choi, MT

Kim, JM

Lee, W

Delfyett, PJ

机构：

[1] Univ Cent Florida, Coll Opt & Photon, CREOL, Orlando, FL 32816 USA

[2] Univ Cent Florida, FPCE, Orlando, FL 32816 USA

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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS | 2006年 / 88卷 / 13期

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10.1063/1.2190443

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O59 [应用物理学];

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摘要：

We report excellent noise performance of an external-cavity actively mode-locked laser based on quantum-dot gain medium. Optical pulse trains with less than 7.5 fs residual timing jitter (1 Hz to 10 MHz) for a 12.8 GHz harmonically mode-locked ring laser were obtained. This result represents, to our knowledge, the lowest residual jitter reported from actively mode-locked semiconductor lasers, and shows that quantum-dot mode-locked lasers are promising as sources of ultralow noise optical pulse trains. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.

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