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Fundamental mode-locking of a composite-cavity electro-optic microchip laser for microwave photonics
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| Title: | Fundamental mode-locking of a composite-cavity electro-optic microchip laser for microwave photonics |
| Authors: | Yoo, David K.
Madjar, Asher
Goldwasser, Samuel
Herczfeld, Peter R. |
| Keywords: | Mode locked laser
Analog-digital conversion
Optical communication
Solid lasers
Electrooptic devices
Timing jitter |
| Issue Date: | 2005 |
| Publisher: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Citation: | International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics, MWP 2005, pp. 37-40. |
| Abstract: | Compact solid-state lasers are an attractive potential source for high speed, low noise optical pulses suitable for microwave photonic systems such as optical A/D conversion or digital communications. These small devices can be mode-locked at the fundamental cavity resonance, thereby avoiding the complications arising from the presence of supermodes in harmonically mode-locked lasers. An Nd:YVO4/MgO:LiNbO3 microchip laser was mode-locked at a fundamental frequency of 20 GHz. When locked to a synthesizer, the phase noise was source-limited to -72 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz offset. A coupled optoelectronic oscillator structure was then used to mode-lock the device without a microwave source, yielding a further reduced phase noise of -95 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz offset. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1860/1621 |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty Research and Publications (ECE)
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