Tunable Short Cavity 10-Gb/s 1550-nm DFB-Laser With Integrated Optical Amplifier and Taper

Author

Moehrle, Martin ; Sigmund, A. ; Wagner, C. ; Przyrembel, G. ; Bornholdt, C. ; Zeiler, M. ; Moerl, L.

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommun., Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Berlin, Germany

Volume

23

Issue

16

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1157

Lastpage

1159

Abstract

A novel tunable 1550-nm buried heterostructure (BH-) distributed feedback (DFB)-laser is presented consisting of a phase tuning section, a short cavity complex coupled DFB section, and an amplifier section with integrated optical taper. The device shows a narrow optical far-field, a high optical output power, up to 10-Gb/s direct modulation capability and a wavelength tuning range of several nanometers by varying the current in the phase section only.

Keywords

amplifiers; distributed feedback lasers; integrated optics; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; optical modulation; semiconductor lasers; DFB-laser; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; buried heterostructure distributed feedback laser; direct modulation capability; integrated optical amplifier; integrated optical taper; optical far-field power; optical output power; phase tuning; tunable short cavity; wavelength 1550 nm; wavelength tuning; Cavity resonators; Laser tuning; Optical coupling; Optical device fabrication; Optical fibers; Direct modulation; distributed feedback (DFB); short cavity; taper; tunable laser;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2157677

Filename

5773476