[OPTICAL REVIEW Vol. 7, No. 4 (2000) 317-322]
Measurement of Timing Jitter in Wavelength Tunable Femtosecond Soliton Pulses
Yoshiro MATSUO,1 Norihiko NISHIZAWA,1 Masakazu MORI2 and Toshio GOTO1
1Department of Quantum Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8603 Japan, 2Department of Information Network Engineering, Aichi Institute of Technology, 1247, Yachigusa, Yakusa-cho, Toyota, 470-0392 Japan
(Received January 18, 2000; Accepted March 15, 2000)
We investigated the root mean square (RMS) timing jitter and RMS intensity noise of the wavelength tunable femtosecond soliton pulses using the technique of radio-frequency spectrum analysis. We obtained interesting results that the generated solitons have almost constant RMS timing jitter and RMS intensity noise of approximately 410 fs and 0.03% in the wavelength region of 1600-1750 nm. It is therefore believed that the magnitudes of the jitter and noise are not greatly increased in the process of wavelength tunable soliton pulse generation. The wavelength tunable soliton pulse is confirmed to be stable and useful for practical applications.
Key words : ultrashort pulse, wavelength conversion, timing jitter, intensity noise, Raman scattering, radio-frequency spectrum analysis