TY - JOUR
KW - pfc
AU - D. Hudson
AU - K. Holman
AU - R. Jones
AU - Steven Cundiff
AU - Jun Ye
AU - D. Jones
AB - 	
We demonstrate a mode-locked, erbium-doped fiber laser with its repetition frequency synchronized to a second fiber laser via an intracavity electro-optic modulator (EOM). With servo control from the EOM (bandwidth ∼230 kHz) and a slower speed intracavity piezoelectric transducer (resonance at ∼20 kHz), we demonstrate stabilization of the repetition frequency with an in-loop rms timing jitter of 10 fs, integrated over a bandwidth from 1 Hz to 100  kHz. This represents what is to our knowledge the first time an EOM has been introduced inside a mode-locked laser cavity for fast servo action and the lowest timing jitter reported for a mode-locked fiber laser.

© 2005 Optical Society of America
BT - Optics Letters
DA - 2005-11
DO - 10.1364/OL.30.002948
N2 - 	
We demonstrate a mode-locked, erbium-doped fiber laser with its repetition frequency synchronized to a second fiber laser via an intracavity electro-optic modulator (EOM). With servo control from the EOM (bandwidth ∼230 kHz) and a slower speed intracavity piezoelectric transducer (resonance at ∼20 kHz), we demonstrate stabilization of the repetition frequency with an in-loop rms timing jitter of 10 fs, integrated over a bandwidth from 1 Hz to 100  kHz. This represents what is to our knowledge the first time an EOM has been introduced inside a mode-locked laser cavity for fast servo action and the lowest timing jitter reported for a mode-locked fiber laser.

© 2005 Optical Society of America
PY - 2005
EP - 2948
T2 - Optics Letters
TI - Mode-locked fiber laser frequency-controlled with an intracavity electro-optic modulator
VL - 30
SN - 0146-9592
ER -