Passively mode-locked glass waveguide laser with 14-fs timing jitter.
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.
Schlager
John B
JB
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305-3328, USA. schlager@boulder.nist.gov
Callicoatt
Berton E
BE
Mirin
Richard P
RP
Sanford
Norman A
NA
Jones
David J
DJ
Ye
Jun
J