Measuring timing jitter with optical cross correlations

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1047-1052

  Jiang, Leaf A ^b   Wong, Samuel T ^b   Grein, Matthew E ^a,b   Ippen, Erich P ^a,b   Haus, Hermann A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actively mode locked laser diode; Cross correlation; Fluctuations; Monolithic passively mode locked laser diode; Noise measurements; Probability density function; Pulse to pulse jitter; Timing jitter; Variance

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TIMING JITTER;

OPTICAL CROSS CORRELATIONS;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0036684196     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2002.800993     Document Type: Article

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