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INFLUENCE OF NOISE-INDUCED MODULATIONS ON THE TIMING STABILITY OF PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR LASER SUBJECT TO OPTICAL FEEDBACK

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2025

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LINA JAURIGUE
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Institute of Physics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Weimarer Straße 25, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany; e-mail: lina.jaurigue@tu-ilmenau.de
KATHY LÜDGE*
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Weimarer Straße 25, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany; e-mail: lina.jaurigue@tu-ilmenau.de
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Abstract

We show that passively mode-locked lasers, subject to feedback from a single external cavity can exhibit large timing fluctuations on short time scales, despite having a relatively small long-term timing jitter. This means that the commonly used von Linde and Kéfélian techniques of experimentally estimating the timing jitter can lead to large errors in the estimation of the arrival time of pulses. We also show that adding a second feedback cavity of the appropriate length can significantly suppress noise-induced modulations that are present in the single feedback system. This reduces the short time-scale fluctuations of the interspike interval time and, at the same time, improves the variance of the fluctuation of the pulse arrival times on long time scales.

Keywords

mode lockingtiming jitterdelay differential equation

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Primary: 00A71: Theory of mathematical modeling
Secondary: 00A72: General methods of simulation 00A79: Physics (use more specific entries from Sections 70 through 86 when possible)
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The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 67 , 2025 , e22
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