Ultralow timing jitter picosecond pulse generation from electrically gain-switched oxidized vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

B. Zhu; I. H. White; K. A. Williams; M. R.T. Tan; R. P. Schneider; S. W. Corzine; S. Y. Wang

doi:10.1109/68.623245

Ultralow timing jitter picosecond pulse generation from electrically gain-switched oxidized vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

B. Zhu, I. H. White, K. A. Williams, M. R.T. Tan, R. P. Schneider, S. W. Corzine, S. Y. Wang

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Abstract

Ultralow timing jitter picosecond optical pulses are generated by electrically gain switching oxide-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL's) at repetition rates of up to 10.0 GHz. Timing jitter as low as 1.2 ps is measured, which is at least four times lower than that measured for implanted VCSEL's. The ultralow timing jitter is attributed to the high level of spontaneous coupling in the oxide-confined VCSEL due to multimode operation resulting from the index guiding properties of the oxide layer.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1307-1309
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	9
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/68.623245
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 1997

Funding

Manuscript received March 26, 1997; revised June 25, 1997. This work was supported by the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and by the Royal Society. B. Zhu, I. H. White, and K. A. Williams are with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, Queen’s Building, BS8 1TR, U.K. M. R. T. Tan, R. P. Schneider Jr., S. W. Corzine, and S. Y. Wang are with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto CA 94303 USA. Publisher Item Identifier S 1041-1135(97)07167-X.

Keywords

Gain-switched semiconductor lasers
Short pulse generation
Timing jitters
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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