An Optoelectronic Oscillator Using an 850-nm VCSEL for Generating Low Jitter Optical Pulses

Preetpaul Devgan; Prem Kumar; Kent Geib

doi:10.1109/LPT.2006.870068

An Optoelectronic Oscillator Using an 850-nm VCSEL for Generating Low Jitter Optical Pulses

Preetpaul Devgan, Prem Kumar, Kent Geib

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

We demonstrate an optoelectronic oscillator using a gain-switched vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser in a fiber-feedback configuration. We simultaneously generate a 2-GHz optical pulse stream at 850 nm with 750-fs timing jitter (over 100 Hz-10 MHz range) along with an electrical signal that is locked to the repetition rate of the optical pulses. The timing jitter performance is confirmed by measuring higher harmonic phase noise.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	685-687
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	18
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2006.870068
State	Published - Mar 1 2006

Keywords

(VCSEL)
850-nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser
optical pulses
optoelectronic oscillator (OEO)
self-starting pulse source
timing jitter

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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