Multiwavelength and power equalized SOA laser sources

Author

Pleros, N. ; Bintjas, C. ; Kalyvas, M. ; Theophilopoulos, G. ; Yiannopoulos, K. ; Sygletos, S. ; Avramopoulos, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

Volume

14

Issue

5

fYear

2002

fDate

5/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

693

Lastpage

695

Abstract

Multiwavelength and power-equalized operation is demonstrated in a semiconductor optical amplifier ring laser that uses a fiber Fabry-Perot filter. By using single-pass optical feedback, the power-equalized oscillating spectrum is broadened so that simultaneous oscillation of 52 lines spaced at 50 GHz is achieved. The lines had 500 MHz width were power-equalized to within 0.3 dB and the extinction was better than 32 dB.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot interferometers; laser feedback; optical fibre filters; optical transmitters; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM transmitters; extinction; fiber Fabry-Perot filter; multiwavelength operation; power equalized SOA laser sources; power-equalized oscillating spectrum; semiconductor optical amplifier ring laser; simultaneous oscillation; single-pass optical feedback; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser feedback; Optical feedback; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber filters; Optical fiber polarization; Power lasers; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.998728

Filename

998728