Greater Than 20-dB Supermode Noise Suppression and Timing Jitter Reduction Via CW Injection of a Harmonically Mode-Locked Laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 1221-1223

  Quinlan, F ^a   Gee, S ^a   Ozharan, S ^a   Delfyett, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonic mode locking; injection locking; optical linewidth; supermode noise; timing jitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008048017     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.901490     Document Type: Article

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