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Generation of low jitter single mode ultrashort optical pulse at arbitrary repetition rate
Author(s) -
Wang YunCai,
Wang AnBang
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.22157
Subject(s) - jitter , optics , laser , laser diode , materials science , picosecond , microwave , diode , distributed feedback laser , pulse (music) , optoelectronics , physics , telecommunications , computer science , quantum mechanics , detector
A modified injection seeding setup, which can generate low jitter single mode picosecond optical pulses independent of the repetition rate in principle, was presented in this article. With a gain‐switched DFB laser diode employed as the external injection seeding, a gain‐switched Fabry–Perot laser diode can generate single mode ultrashort optical pulses with 0.76 ps jitter and 24.5 dB side‐mode‐suppression ratios. The time window of jitter decrease for the DFB laser injection pulses, in which the FP laser pulses are insensitive to its repetition rate, is numerically simulated and experimentally demonstrated. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 49: 447–450, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.22157