Intracavity Phase Modulation and Envelope Phase Noise Transfer in Modelocked Lasers

Autor:	T. D. Mulder, Brian H. Kolner
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Physics Active laser medium Photon business.industry Physics::Optics Condensed Matter Physics Laser Population inversion Transfer function Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics law.invention Optics law Phase noise Electrical and Electronic Engineering business Phase modulation Jitter
Zdroj:	IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 48:651-658
ISSN:	1558-1713 0018-9197
Popis:	We derive an expression which relates harmonic intracavity phase modulation to the resulting timing stability degradation of modelocked lasers. Random intracavity phase perturbations can be caused by, e.g., pump power fluctuations, which have been shown to be a significant cause of pulse-to-pulse timing jitter. The noise transfer function describes this frequency-dependent sensitivity of timing stability to pump fluctuations, and we show that it scales as the square of the axial-mode spacing and inversely with the perturbation frequency which together operate as coefficients on the frequency dependence of the cavity photon number, the population inversion, and the gain medium temperature.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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