Noise characterization of erbium-doped fiber lasers mode locked by semiconductor saturable absorbers

L. Rahman; B. C. Barnett; M. N. Islam; H. Lin; H. Lin; R. Fortenberry; R. Fortenberry; K. W. Chang; K. W. Chang; S. A. Newton; S. A. Newton

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1995),
paper JTuE2

Noise characterization of erbium-doped fiber lasers mode locked by semiconductor saturable absorbers

L. Rahman, B. C. Barnett, M. N. Islam, H. Lin, R. Fortenberry, K. W. Chang, and S. A. Newton

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 1995

Baltimore, Maryland United States
21–26 May 1995
ISBN: 1-55752-400-9

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L. Rahman, B. C. Barnett, M. N. Islam, H. Lin, R. Fortenberry, K. W. Chang, and S. A. Newton, "Noise characterization of erbium-doped fiber lasers mode locked by semiconductor saturable absorbers," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, T. Deutsch, J. Goldsmith, D. Killinger, and G. Valley, eds., Vol. 15 of OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1995), paper JTuE2.

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Abstract

We compare the noise performance of a 980 nm laser-diode-pumped (LD-pumped) ring erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) with a Fabry-Perot (FP) EDFL that is pumped by a diode-pumped Nd: YLF laser. For frequencies greater than 200 Hz, the measured rms timing jitter is 3.2 ps for the FP EDFL and 1.8 ps for the ring EDFL, We find that the phase noise below 200 Hz in the FP EDFL is primarily due to mode hopping in the Nd:YLF pump laser. The performance of the ring EDFL is competitive with passively, mode-locked semiconductor lasers¹ and should be appropriate for transmission, switching, and sampling applications.

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