Self-seeding of Fabry-Perot laser diode for generating wavelength-tunable chirp-compensated single-mode pulses with high-sidemode suppression ratio

Author

Li, Shenping ; Chiang, K.S. ; Gambling, W.A. ; Liu, Y. ; Zhang, L. ; Bennion, I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, China

Volume

12

Issue

11

fYear

2000

Firstpage

1441

Lastpage

1443

Abstract

We report an effective technique for generating wavelength-tunable chirp-compensated single-mode pulses with a high sidemode suppression ratio (SMSR) based on self-seeding a Fabry-Perot laser diode. This technique relies on the use of a tunable linearly-chirped fiber Bragg grating to provide wavelength-selective feedback, output filtering, and chirp compensation. With this technique, we have generated chirp-compensated picosecond pulses with a SMSR higher than 40 dB over a tuning range of 11.5 nm.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; Fabry-Perot resonators; chirp modulation; laser cavity resonators; laser feedback; laser modes; laser tuning; optical fibres; optical filters; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; Fabry-Perot laser diode; chirp compensation; chirp-compensated picosecond pulses; high-sidemode suppression ratio; output filtering; self-seeding; sidemode suppression ratio; tunable linearly-chirped fiber Bragg grating; tuning range; wavelength-selective feedback; wavelength-tunable chirp-compensated single-mode pulses; Chirp; Diode lasers; Fabry-Perot; Fiber lasers; Laser feedback; Laser tuning; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical tuning; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.887644

Filename

887644