Timing jitter reduction of silicon hybrid harmonically mode-locked ring laser using an integrated sampled-grating DBR.

Abstract

An integrated sampled-grating silicon hybrid mode-locked ring laser is proposed for 20-GHz super-mode noise suppression. The dynamics, phase noise, and timing jitter are investigated using a delay differential equation (DDE) model. The results show that the 20-GHz harmonic regime of the proposed structure is significantly increased when the sampled-grating structure is included. Additionally, a better selectivity of the optical modes by a sampled-grating distributed Bragg reflector (SGDBR) leads to more suppression of super-mode noise compared to the long-ring structures with a spectral filter which were previously reported. Compared to previous works, the phase noise is improved by approximately 6 dB and the timing jitter is decreased to less than a third.