For the first time to the authors' knowledge, rare-earth doped fibre a
nd semiconductor lasers have been passively configured to exploit the
available wide gain-bandwidths with flexibility by simply connectorisi
ng the lasing medium and fibre reflection gratings. Lasing has been de
monstrated over 93nm from a robust single semiconductor laser module.
BER measurements at 1.2Gbit/s have been performed at 1300nm.