Electrically-pumped directly-modulated tunable VCSEL for metro DWDM applications

Author

Li, G.S. ; Nabiev, R.F. ; Yuen, W. ; Jansen, M. ; Davis, D. ; Chang-Hasnain, C.J.

Author_Institution

Bandwidth9 Inc., Fremont, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

220

Abstract

Electrically-pumped continuous tunable vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSEL) emitting in the 1530-1620 nm wavelength regime is reported for the first time. The VCSELs exhibit a continuous, repeatable and hysterisis-free wavelength-tuning characteristic. The VCSELs are directly modulated at 2.5 Gbps and has > 45 dB side mode suppression ratio (SMSR) over the entire tuning range. Wavelength locking is achieved in ∼200 usec by a simple universal locker.

Keywords

laser tuning; optical communication equipment; optical pumping; surface emitting lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 1530 to 1620 nm; 2.5 Gbit/s; continuous wavelength-tuning; electrically-pumped continuous tunable VCSEL; electrically-pumped directly-modulated tunable VCSEL; hysterisis-free wavelength-tuning; metro DWDM applications; repeatable wavelength-tuning; side mode suppression ratio; tuning range; universal locker; vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; wavelength locking; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Fiber lasers; Laser tuning; Optical tuning; Optimized production technology; Surface emitting lasers; Tunable circuits and devices; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Voltage; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6705-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2001.988891

Filename

988891