title: Passively mode-locked glass waveguide laser with 14-fs timing jitter.
abstract: Ultralow jitter pulse trains are produced from a passively mode-locked, erbium/ytterbium co-doped, planar waveguide laser by use of high-bandwidth feedback control acting on the physical cavity length and optical pump power. Synchronization of a 750-MHz, fundamentally mode-locked laser to an external clock signal yields an ultralow, root-mean-square relative timing jitter of 14.4 fs integrated from 10 Hz to the Nyquist frequency of 375 MHz.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305-3328, USA. schlager@boulder.nist.gov
authors.forename: John B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Schlager
authors.forename: Berton E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Callicoatt
authors.forename: Richard P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Mirin
authors.forename: Norman A
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authors.lastname: Sanford
authors.forename: David J
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authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Jun
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authors.lastname: Ye