Abstract

We present an experimental study of the effect of continuous-wave optical injection (OI) from a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) on the timing jitter of a gain-switched discrete-mode semiconductor laser (DML). Timing jitter was analyzed over a wide range of temperatures of the DML, which allowed tuning the detuning between the lasers emissions, and it was compared with the inter-pulse timing jitter. We have found that there is a range of detunings in which OI diminishes the jitter by 70% with respect to the jitter of the solitary DML. However, within this region, there are some detunings for which OI significantly increases the jitter.

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