• DocumentCode
    1061585
  • Title

    Novel Frequency Chirp Compensation Scheme for Directly Modulated SG DBR Tunable Lasers

  • Author

    Maher, Robert ; Shi, Kai ; Anandarajah, Prince M. ; Kaszubowska, Aleksandra ; Barry, Liam P. ; Yu, Yonglin

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Inst. for Networks & Commun. Eng., Dublin City Univ., Dublin
  • Volume
    21
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    3/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    340
  • Lastpage
    342
  • Abstract
    The authors demonstrate a compensation scheme to reduce the frequency chirp associated with directly modulated sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector tunable lasers. Experimental results obtained show that the direct modulation of the laser´s gain section results in a large frequency chirp of 25 GHz. However, by simultaneous modulation of the laser´s phase section this large frequency chirp can be significantly reduced.
  • Keywords
    chirp modulation; compensation; diffraction gratings; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; laser tuning; direct modulation; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; frequency 25 GHz; frequency chirp compensation; laser phase section; sampled grating; tunable lasers; Direct intensity modulation; frequency chirp; optical fiber communications; tunable laser (TL); wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2008.2011650
  • Filename
    4745767