Abstract
Relative intensity noises (RIN) of mode-locked lasers are properties which are crucial for applications. In the literature, there have been plenty of theoretical/experimental studies on the RIN noises of passive/active single-pulse mode-locked lasers. Since some mode-locked lasers can also be operated under the bound-pulse mode-locking state, it is thus very interesting to further examine the RIN properties under bound-pulse mode-locking, and to verify if there are possibilities for RIN noise reduction as predicted by some previous theoretical works. The conventional analytical formula based on the soliton perturbation theory can no longer be applied due to the pulse shape complexity for the bound-pulse mode-locking cases. New theoretical tools for modelling general mode-locked lasers are eagerly awaited. In the present work, the RIN noises of an environmentally stable 10 GHz hybrid mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser capable of bound-soliton generation are experimentally investigated, and a novel theoretical method based on the linearized backpropagation approach is theoretically developed for calculating the RIN noise spectra of general mode-locked lasers. Both the theoretical and experimental results demonstrate that the RIN noise of the bound-soliton state can be lower than that of the single-soliton state by following the laser power scaling tendency.
Highlights
Investigation of mode-locked laser noises is important both for studying delicate laser dynamics and for optimizing laser performance
The relative intensity noises (RIN) noises of an environmentally stable 10 GHz hybrid mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser capable of bound-soliton generation are experimentally investigated, and a novel theoretical method based on the linearized backpropagation approach is theoretically developed for calculating the RIN noise spectra of general mode-locked lasers
The repetition rate is around 10 GHz and the laser is with a good super mode suppression ratio (SMSR)
Summary
Investigation of mode-locked laser noises is important both for studying delicate laser dynamics and for optimizing laser performance. By introducing proper noise sources into the Master equation model for mode-locked lasers, different laser noise properties, such as the relative intensity noises (RIN), as well as the timing jitter noises, can be calculated based on soliton perturbation theory [1,2,3,4,5,6] or stochastic numerical simulation [7,8,9,10,11]. The noise properties of bound-pulse mode-locked lasers have been less investigated, but remain of particular research interest
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