Highly coherent picosecond pulse generation with sub-ps jitter and high SMSR by gain switching Discrete Mode laser diodes at 10 GHz line rate
Anandarajah, Prince M.ORCID: 0000-0001-7335-8044, Barry, Liam P.ORCID: 0000-0001-8366-4790, Kaszubowska-Anandarajah, AleksandraORCID: 0000-0003-4811-9273, O'Gorman, James, O'Carroll, John, Herbert, C., Phelan, Richard and Duke, A.S.
(2009)
Highly coherent picosecond pulse generation with sub-ps jitter and high SMSR by gain switching Discrete Mode laser diodes at 10 GHz line rate.
In: OFC 2009 - Conference on Optical Fiber Communication, 22-26 Mar 2009, San Diego, CA, USA.
ISBN 978-1-4244-2606-5
We demonstrate the generation of picosecond pulses with ~800 fs jitter and SMSR in excess of 60 dB by gain switching a discrete mode laser and compare the results with a commercial DFB laser.