Spectral measurement of the noise in continuous-wave mode-locked laser pulses

被引：20

作者：

Chen, LP

Wang, Y

Liu, JM

机构：

[1] Department of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles

[2] University of California, Los Angeles, CA

[3] Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

[4] Dept. of Etectrical and Comp. Eng., State University of New York, Buffalo, NY

[5] Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

[6] American Physical Society, Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society

来源：

IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS | 1996年 / 32卷 / 10期

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D O I：

10.1109/3.538789

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

A theoretical analysis of the noise of a periodic optical pulse train is presented. It is shown that the amplitude fluctuation, the pulsewidth fluctuation, the pulse timing jitter, and the cross correlations between any two of these three noise parameters can be separately quantified by comparing the noise power spectra of the fundamental pulses and those of the second-harmonic pulses. The noise characteristics of an actively mode-locked Nd:YLF laser are presented to demonstrate this technique.

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页码：1817 / 1825

页数：9

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