23 and 39 GHz low phase noise monosection InAs/InP (113)B quantum dots mode-locked lasers

Kamil Klaime (1) , Cosimo Calo (2) , Rozenn Piron (1) , Cyril Paranthoen (1) , Dame Thiam (1) , Thomas Batte (1) , Olivier Dehaese (1) , Julie Le Pouliquen (1) , Slimane Loualiche (1) , Alain Le Corre (1) , Kamel Merghem (2) , Anthony Martinez (2) , Abderrahim Ramdane (2)

1 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
2 LPN - Laboratoire de photonique et de nanostructures

Here we report for the first time a passive mode-locking of single section Fabry-Perot (FP) lasers based on InAs quantum dots(QDs) grown on (113)B InP substrate. Devices under study are a 1 and 2 mm long laser diodes emitting around 1.58 µm. Self-starting pulses with repetition rates around 23 and 39 GHz and pulse widths down to 1.5 ps are observed after propagation through a suitable length of single-mode fiber for intracavity dispersion compensation. A RF spectral width as low as 20 kHz has been obtained leading to a low timing jitter RMS.

Domaines: Optique / photonique

Kamil Klaime, Cosimo Calo, Rozenn Piron, Cyril Paranthoen, Dame Thiam, et al.. 23 and 39 GHz low phase noise monosection InAs/InP (113)B quantum dots mode-locked lasers. Optics Express, 2013, 21 (23), pp.29000-29005. ⟨10.1364/OE.21.029000⟩. ⟨hal-01167812⟩