Performance study and assessment of phase noise suppression by incoherent addition in a mode-locked fiber laser system

• Main Authors: Xue, Jin, Li, Nanxi, Wu, Kan, Wong, Jia Haur, Ouyang, Chunmei, Aditya, Sheel, Shum, Perry Ping
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97468; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10583
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper investigates the effectiveness of phase noise suppression by incoherent addition in a passively mode-locked fiber laser. Incoherent addition is achieved by using an interferometer external to the mode-locked laser. Two different types of interferometers, Mach–Zehnder and ring, are investi...