A semiconductor-based, frequency-stabilized mode-locked laser using a phase modulator and an intracavity etalon
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Josue Davila-Rodriguez1, Ibrahim Ozdur, Charles Williams
1CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, Florida 32816-2700, USA. josue@creol.ucf.edu
Abstract:
We report a frequency-stabilized semiconductor-based mode-locked laser that uses a phase modulator and an intracavity Fabry-Perot etalon for both active mode-locking and optical frequency stabilization. A twofold multiplication of the repetition frequency of the laser is inherently obtained in the process. The residual timing jitter of the mode-locked pulse train is 13 fs (1 Hz to 100 MHz), measured after regenerative frequency division of the photodetected pulse train.
