• DocumentCode
    161319
  • Title

    Cascaded Fabry-Pérot lasers for coherent expansion of wavelength tunable gain switched comb

  • Author

    Deseada Gutierrez Pascual, M. ; Anandarajah, Prince M. ; Rui Zhou ; Smyth, Frank ; Latkowski, S. ; Barry, Liam P.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electron. Eng., Dublin City Univ., Dublin, Ireland
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We propose a simple potentially integrable configuration for expanding a wavelength tunable comb by cascading gain switched Fabry-Pérot lasers. A 10GHz spaced comb, exhibiting 13 coherent low-linewidth tones within a 3 dB window, and tunable over 20 nm is demonstrated.
  • Keywords
    Fabry-Perot resonators; laser tuning; optical switches; solid lasers; cascading gain switched Fabry-Perot lasers; coherent expansion; coherent low-linewidth tones; wavelength tunable gain switched comb; Gain; Laser mode locking; Optical fibers; Optical switches; Semiconductor lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964019
  • Filename
    6964019