Timing jitter reduction of a mode-locked VECSEL using an optically triggered SESAM

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 1434-1436

  Baili, Ghaya ^a   Alouini, Mehdi ^a,b   Morvan, Loc ^a   Dolfi, Daniel ^a   Khadour, Aghiad ^c   Bouchoule, Sophie ^c   Oudar, Jean Louis ^c  

^a THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Injection locked oscillators; mode locked lasers; optical pulse generation

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; FREQUENCY RANGES; HIGH SPEED SAMPLING; INJECTION LOCKED OSCILLATORS; LOCKING BANDWIDTH; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODULATION INDEXES; OPTICAL CONTROL; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; PULSE TRAIN; REPETITION RATE; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; TIMING JITTER REDUCTIONS; VECSEL; VERTICAL EXTERNAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

LASERS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; MIRRORS; PULSE GENERATORS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIMING JITTER;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77956570810     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2058796     Document Type: Article

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