Title :
A stable widely tunable laser using a silica-waveguide triple-ring resonator
Author :
Takahashi, M. ; Deki, Y. ; Takaesu, S. ; Horie, M. ; Ishizaka, Masashige ; Sato, K. ; Kudo, K. ; Suzuki, K. ; Kaneko, T. ; Xu, X. ; Yamazaki, H.
Author_Institution :
Syst. Platforms Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract :
A tunable laser consisting of a silica-waveguide triple-ring resonator connected directly to a semiconductor optical amplifier is presented. Stable single-mode, grid-hopping free and full-band wavelength-digitally-tuning operations with 50-GHz channel spacing are successfully demonstrated.
Keywords :
channel spacing; laser stability; laser tuning; optical resonators; optical waveguide components; semiconductor optical amplifiers; silicon compounds; channel spacing; full L-band wavelength-digitally-tuning operations; grid-hopping free operations; semiconductor optical amplifier; silica-waveguide triple-ring resonator; stable single-mode operations; stable widely tunable laser; Laser modes; Laser stability; Laser tuning; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-783-0
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2005.193197
