Noise in fundamental and harmonic modelocked semiconductor lasers: Experiments and simulations

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 838-849

  Yilmaz, Tolga ^a   Depriest, Christopher M ^a,b   Braun, Alan ^c   Abeles, Joseph H ^c   Delfyett Jr , Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c SARNOFF CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence; Electric field correlations; Fundamental modelocking; Harmonic modelocking; Linewidth; Modelocked lasers; Noise correlations; Residual phase noise; Semiconductor lasers; Supermodes

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER MODES; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIMING JITTER;

EXTERNAL CAVITY LASER; OPTICAL DOMAINS; PHASE NOISE;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0038782138     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.813190     Document Type: Article

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