SUBNANOSECOND TUNABLE LASER USING SINGLE ELECTROABSORPTION TUNING SUPER STRUCTURE GRATING

Authors
ALIBERT G DELORME F BOULET P LANDREAU J NAKAJIMA H
Citation
G. Alibert et al., SUBNANOSECOND TUNABLE LASER USING SINGLE ELECTROABSORPTION TUNING SUPER STRUCTURE GRATING, IEEE photonics technology letters, 9(7), 1997, pp. 895-897
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE photonics technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
9
Issue
7
Year of publication
1997
Pages
895 - 897
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1997)9:7<895:STLUSE>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
A new tunable laser structure using a single electroabsorption (EA) tu ning super structure grating section for fast wavelength switching ope ration, has been realized. The tuning mechanism of this absorption cha nge distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) laser is based on a localized ab sorption variation induced in a multielectrode EA-SSG section. These d evices exhibit a 2.5-nm tuning range with three modes and a switching time, between two successive wavelength channels, shorter than 250 ps. The output power variation under tuning is lower than 1.2 dB.