Abstract
The colliding pulse modelocked (CPM) laser is an attractive source of subpicosecond pulses for electro-optic sampling, but the time resolution of electro-optic sampling also depends on the timing jitter of the optical pulse train. We find that the jitter of the CPM running alone (the absolute jitter) is about 5 ps at 100 MHz, while the jitter between the CPM and a phase-locked RF synthesizer (the relative jitter) is about 1.8 ps.
© 1989 Optical Society of America
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