Directly modulated narrowband slab-coupled optical waveguide laser

Author

Klamkin, Jonathan ; Huang, Robin K. ; Plant, J.J. ; Connors, M.K. ; Missaggia, L.J. ; Loh, William ; Smith, G.M. ; Ray, K.G. ; O´Donnell, F.J. ; Donnelly, J.P. ; Juodawlkis, P.W.

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Lexington, MA, USA

Volume

46

Issue

7

fYear

2010

Firstpage

522

Lastpage

523

Abstract

A slab-coupled optical waveguide laser (SCOWL) is simultaneously wavelength stabilised with a fibre Bragg grating and characterised under a narrow pulse and high repetition rate direct modulation scheme that is suitable for efficient pulse position modulation format optical communication systems. The SCOWL exhibits a large, nearly circular, singlemode that couples efficiently to optical fibre. With a pulse width of 35 ns and a repetition rate of 2.5 MHz, a peak fibre-coupled output power of 1.6 W is achieved for a wavelength stabilised 965 nm SCOWL.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; high-speed optical techniques; laser stability; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; pulse position modulation; semiconductor lasers; waveguide lasers; directly modulated narrowband slab-coupled optical waveguide laser; fibre Bragg grating; fibre-coupled output power; pulse position modulation format optical communication systems; wavelength 965 nm; wavelength stabilisation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el.2010.0035

Filename

5442129