Noise conversion from pump to the passively mode-locked fiber lasers at 1.5 μm

• Main Authors: Wu, Kan, Shum, Perry Ping, Aditya, Sheel, Ouyang, Chunmei, Wong, Jia Haur, Lam, Huy Quoc, Lee, Kenneth Eng Kian
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99205; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10943
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We characterize the noise conversion from the pump relative intensity noise (RIN) to the RIN and phase noise of passively mode-locked lasers at 1.5 μm. Two mode locking mechanisms, nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) and semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM), are compared for noise conve...