Mode-locked fiber laser frequency-controlled with an intracavity electro-optic modulator RID B-4974-2009 RID C-3312-2011

Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2005
Authors
Hudson, DD
Holman, KW
Jones, RJ
Cundiff,S. T
Ye,J.
Jones,D. J
Name of Publication
Optics Letters
Volume
30
Pagination
2948 - 2950
Issue
21
Date Published
2005/11/01/
ISBN Number
0146-9592
Keywords
comb, envelope-offset frequency, high-stability, network
Abstract

We demonstrate a mode-locked, erbium-doped fiber laser with its repetition frequency synchronized to a second fiber laser via an intracavity electro-optic modulator (EOM). With servo control from the EOM (bandwidth similar to 230 kHz) and a slower speed intracavity piezoelectric transducer (resonance at similar to 20 kHz), we demonstrate stabilization of the repetition frequency with an in-loop rms timing jitter of 10 fs, integrated over a bandwidth from 1 Hz to 100 kHz. This represents what is to our knowledge the first time an EOM has been introduced inside a mode-locked laser cavity for fast servo action and the lowest timing jitter reported for a mode-locked fiber laser. (c) 2005 Optical Society of America.


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