A semiconductor-based, frequency-stabilized mode-locked laser using a phase modulator and an intracavity etalon

Opt Lett. 2010 Dec 15;35(24):4130-2. doi: 10.1364/OL.35.004130.

Abstract

We report a frequency-stabilized semiconductor-based mode-locked laser that uses a phase modulator and an intracavity Fabry-Perot etalon for both active mode-locking and optical frequency stabilization. A twofold multiplication of the repetition frequency of the laser is inherently obtained in the process. The residual timing jitter of the mode-locked pulse train is 13 fs (1 Hz to 100 MHz), measured after regenerative frequency division of the photodetected pulse train.