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We report, what is to our knowledge, the lowest-noise pulsetrain produced to date with an actively mode-locked external-cavity semiconductor diode laser. Operating characteristics at 10 GHz include dispersion-compensated pulsewidths as short as 1.2 ps, amplitude noise as low as 0.12% rms, and residual phase noise as low as 43-fs rms. Potential application of such a laser in a next-generation optical analog-to-digital converter would theoretically provide as much as 8.6 bits of resolution, while sampling a 5-GHz waveform at the Nyquist frequency.
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DePriest et al. (2001) studied this question.
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