Mitigation of mode partition noise in quantum-dash Fabry-Perot mode-locked lasers using Manchester encoding and balanced detection

Mitigation of relative intensity noise of Quantum Dash mode-locked lasers for PAM4 based optical interconnects using encoding techniques

Quantum dash (Q-Dash) passively mode-locked lasers (PMLLs) exhibit significant low frequency relative intensity noise (RIN), due to the high mode partition noise (MPN), which prevents the implementation of multilevel amplitude modulation formats such as PAM4. The authors demonstrate low frequency RIN mitigation by employing 8B/10B and Manchester encoding with PAM4 modulation format. These encod...

Quantum Dash Actively Mode-locked Fabry-Perot Laser Module demonstrated as part of a Wavelength Tunable RZ Transmitter

Intensity noise of mode-locked fiber lasers.

Intensity noise of mode-locked fiber lasers is characterized systematically for all major mode-locking regimes over a wide range of parameters. We find that equally low-noise performance can be obtained in all regimes. Losses in the cavity influence noise strongly without a clear trace in the pulse characteristics. Given that high-energy fiber laser oscillators reported to date have utilized la...

Cavity design and characteristics of monolithic long-wavelength InAs/InP quantum dash passively mode-locked lasers.

By extending the net-gain modulation phasor approach to account for the discrete distribution of the gain and saturable absorber sections in the cavity, a convenient model is derived and experimentally verified for the cavity design of two-section passively mode-locked quantum dash (QDash) lasers. The new set of equations can be used to predict functional device layouts using the measured modal...

Mode Locked Fiber Lasers