Tunable DFB laser array integrated with Mach-Zehnder modulators for 44.6Gbps DQPSK transmitter

Author

Saito, Takashi ; Takiguchi, Tetsuya ; Takagi, Kazuyoshi ; Matsumoto, Kaname ; Sasahata, Y. ; Nagira, T. ; Sakuma, H. ; Suzuki, Daisuke ; Makita, R. ; Takabayashi, M. ; Akiyama, Kazunari ; Gotoda, M. ; Ishimura, E. ; Sugitatsu, A. ; Shimura, Toshihiro

Author_Institution

High Freq. & Opt. DeviceWorks, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Itami, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

7-10 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

37

Abstract

A tunable DFB laser array integrated with Mach-Zehnder modulators for 44.6Gbps DQPSK transmitter was developed. Wavelength tuning range over 40nm and 44.6Gbps DQPSK modulation with a low driving voltage of 3V were successfully demonstrated.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; distributed feedback lasers; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; integrated optics; laser tuning; optical fabrication; optical modulation; optical transmitters; quadrature phase shift keying; semiconductor laser arrays; wide band gap semiconductors; AlGaInAs-AlGaInAs; DQPSK modulation; DQPSK transmitter; Mach-Zehnder modulators; bit rate 44.6 Gbit/s; integrated tunable DFB laser array; optical differential quadrature phase shift keying; optical fabrication; voltage 3 V; wavelength tuning; Arrays; Optical transmitters; Phase modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tuning; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Laser Conference (ISLC), 2012 23rd IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

0899-9406

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0828-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISLC.2012.6348322

Filename

6348322