Widely tunable lasers for wavelength-division multiplexed communications

Author

Mason, Beck ; San-Liang Lee ; Coldren, Larry A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA

fYear

1997

Firstpage

296

Lastpage

297

Abstract

Recently developed very wide tuning range semiconductor lasers have potential for use as sources in wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) communications systems. The low-chirp and high-bandwidth modulation capabilities of sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) lasers make them well suited for this application. SGDBR lasers have been fabricated with 62-nm cw tuning ranges, 5-MHz linewidths, and >40 dB mode suppression ratios. In this paper, we investigate the data transmission characteristics of directly modulated SGDBR lasers. The bit error rates were measured for both back-to-back and 50-km transmission on four separate wavelengths

Keywords

chirp modulation; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; laser tuning; optical fibre networks; optical transmitters; quantum well lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 50 km; WDM communications; back-to-back transmission; bit error rates; data transmission characteristics; directly modulated; dispersion limit; high-bandwidth modulation capability; low-chirp; quantum wells; ridge waveguide; sampled grating DBR lasers; semiconductor lasers; widely tunable lasers; Bit error rate; Bragg gratings; Data communication; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Laser applications; Laser modes; Laser tuning; Semiconductor lasers; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

1-55752-480-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1997.719906

Filename

719906