title: High repetition rate, low jitter, low intensity noise, fundamentally mode-locked 167 fs soliton Er-fiber laser.
abstract: A fundamentally mode-locked soliton Er-fiber laser generating 167 fs pulses at 194 MHz via polarization additive-pulse mode locking is demonstrated. This simple, compact, and high repetition rate source exhibits a low timing jitter of 18 fs [1 kHz, 10 MHz] and the lowest relative intensity noise of less than 0.003% [1 kHz, 10 MHz] observed from an Er-fiber laser.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA. jchen9@mit.edu
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Jason W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Sickler
authors.forename: Erich P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Ippen
authors.forename: Franz X
authors.initials: FX
authors.lastname: Kärtner