Locking bandwidth of mode-locked semiconductor lasers

L. Zhai; A. J. Lowery; Z. Ahmed; N. Onodera; R. S. Tucker

doi:10.1049/el:19920344

Locking bandwidth of mode-locked semiconductor lasers

L. Zhai, A. J. Lowery, Z. Ahmed, N. Onodera, R. S. Tucker

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Abstract

Measurements on fundamentally-driven and harmonicallydriven mode-locked lasers show that these lasers have low timing jitter when the RF drive frequency is tuned to within the ‘locking bandwidth’ of the fundamental of the cavity resonance frequency, or a harmonic of the frequency. It is shown that the locking bandwidth is determined by a new parameter termed the ‘pull-in time'. The pull-in time is independent of the cavity length and the harmonic number of the drive.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	545-546
Number of pages	2
Journal	Electronics Letters
Volume	28
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19920344
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1992
Externally published	Yes

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Lasers
Semiconductor lasers

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