Wideband Flat Optical Frequency Comb Generated from a Semiconductor Based 10 GHz Mode-Locked Laser with Intra-cavity Fabry-Perot Etalon

Wideband Flat Optical Frequency Comb Generated from a Semiconductor Based 10 GHz Mode-Locked Laser with Intra-cavity Fabry-Perot Etalon

We report stable, wideband, flat-topped, 10 GHz optical frequency comb generation from a semiconductor-based mode-locked ring laser with an intra-cavity high finesse Fabry-Perot etalon. We demonstrate a stable 10 GHz comb with greater than 200 lines within a spectral power variation below 1 dB, which is the largest value obtained from a similar mode-locked laser in our knowledge. Greater than 20 dB of the spectral peak to deep ratio at 0.02 nm resolution, ~92 femtosecond timing jitter over 1 kHz to 1 MHz range, and non-averaged time traces of pulses confirm very stable optical frequency comb lines.