Timing jitter

Timing jitter characterization of modelocked lasers

Keller learned about timing jitter characterization and stabilization during her Ph.D. work with Prof. Bloom at Stanford (1985-1989). The goal was to find the best lasers to generate femtosecond pulses and low timing jitter for electro-optic sampling. Timing jitter measurements were done by Keller on the following femtosecond lasers:
1989: Fiber Raman soliton laser, DownloadRef. [7] (PDF, 814 KB)vertical_align_bottom
1990: Color-center lasers, DownloadRef. [11] (PDF, 438 KB)vertical_align_bottom
1990: CPM dye laser, DownloadRef. [12] (PDF, 479 KB)vertical_align_bottom and DownloadRef. [14] (PDF, 643 KB)vertical_align_bottom

Current SESAM modelocked diode-pumped solid-state lasers can offer quantum noise limited performance (DownloadRef. [226] (PDF, 181 KB)vertical_align_bottom and DownloadRef. [244] (PDF, 386 KB)vertical_align_bottom)

Stabilized SESAM modelocked diode-pumped solid-state lasers have been commercially available since the 1990s
(e.g. from external pageTime-Bandwidth Products AGcall_made, a spin-off company from ETH Zurich by Keller and Weingarten)