Pulse repetition frequency multiplication via intracavity optical filtering in AM mode-locked fiber ring lasers

We demonstrate pulse repetition frequency multiplication in AM mode-locked fiber ring lasers using optical filtering realized via an intracavity fiber Fabry-Perot filter (FFP) and show that the generated optical pulses are highly stable in amplitude noise and timing jitter. A 3.477-GHz optical pulse...

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Published in:IEEE photonics technology letters 2002-03, Vol.14 (3), p.284-286
Main Authors: Gupta, K.K., Onodera, N., Abedin, K.S., Hyodo, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Filtering
Filtration
Frequency conversion
Noise
Noise generators
Noise level
Optical fiber filters
Optical fibers
Optical filters
Optical modulation
Optical noise
Optical pulse generation
Optical pulses
Pulse repetition frequency
Ring lasers
Timing jitter
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Summary:We demonstrate pulse repetition frequency multiplication in AM mode-locked fiber ring lasers using optical filtering realized via an intracavity fiber Fabry-Perot filter (FFP) and show that the generated optical pulses are highly stable in amplitude noise and timing jitter. A 3.477-GHz optical pulse train is generated using a modulation signal of 869.284 MHz, a fourth subharmonic multiple of the 3.48-GHz free spectral range of FFP. The generated optical pulses exhibit a high degree of pulse stability in terms of a large suppression of supermode noise, a low amplitude noise of 0.93 %, and a timing jitter of 1.2 ps.
ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/68.986787