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) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 685-687 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | IEEE Photonics Technology Letters |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 1 2006 |
Funding
Manuscript received October 5, 2005; revised December 24, 2005. Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract DE-AC04-94 AL85000. The work of P. Devgan was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant IGERT DGE-9 987 577.
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