Effect of Dynamical Instability on Timing Jitter in Passively Mode-Locked Quantum-Dot Lasers

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2014-12-08

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Optical Soc Amer

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We study the effect of noise on the dynamics of passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers both experimentally and theoretically. A method combining analytical and numerical approaches for estimation of pulse timing jitter is proposed. We investigate how the presence of dynamical features such as wavelength bistability in a quantum-dot laser affects timing jitter.

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Noise, Timing jitters, Mode-locked lasers, Semiconductors

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"A. P. and A. G. V. acknowledge the support of SFB 787 of the DFG, project B5, and of the grant 14-41-00044 of RFS. T. H. acknowledges the support of EU FP7 IEF HARMOFIRE project, Grant No. 299288 and IRC Government of Ireland postdoctoral fellowship, grant GOIPD/2014/228 (TUSELAMO). G. H., S. P. H. and A. G. V. acknowledge the support of EU FP7 ITN PROPHET, Grant No. 264687. A. G. V. and G. H. acknowledge the support of SFI E. T. S. Walton Visitors Award, grant 11/W.1/I2073. G. H. and S. P. H. were also supported by the SFI under Contract No. 11/PI/1152, and under the framework of the HEA PRTLI Cycle 5 Structured Ph.D. Programme INSPIRE. D. R. acknowledges the support of NSF grant DMS1413223."

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