title: Generation of low-timing-jitter femtosecond pulse trains with 2 GHz repetition rate via external repetition rate multiplication.
abstract: Generation of low-timing-jitter 150 fs pulse trains at 1560 nm with 2 GHz repetition rate is demonstrated by locking a 200 MHz fundamental polarization additive-pulse mode-locked erbium fiber laser to high-finesse external Fabry-Perot cavities. The timing jitter and relative intensity noise of the repetition-rate multiplied pulse train are investigated.
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: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fendel
authors.forename: Erich P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Ippen
authors.forename: Franz X
authors.initials: FX
authors.lastname: Kärtner
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wilken
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Holzwarth
authors.forename: Theodor W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Hänsch