Pulse repetition frequency multiplication via intracavity optical filtering in AM mode-locked fiber ring lasers
- 7 August 2002
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Vol. 14 (3) , 284-286
- https://doi.org/10.1109/68.986787
Abstract
We demonstrate pulse repetition frequency multiplication in AM mode-locked fiber ring lasers using optical filtering realized via an intracavity fiber Fabry-Perot filter (FFP) and show that the generated optical pulses are highly stable in amplitude noise and timing jitter. A 3.477-GHz optical pulse train is generated using a modulation signal of 869.284 MHz, a fourth subharmonic multiple of the 3.48-GHz free spectral range of FFP. The generated optical pulses exhibit a high degree of pulse stability in terms of a large suppression of supermode noise, a low amplitude noise of 0.93 %, and a timing jitter of 1.2 ps.Keywords
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