High power fiber grating lasers for 2.5 Gbit/s WDM transmitters

Author

Nasu, Hideyuki ; Omura, Hideyuki

Author_Institution

Inf. & Electron. Lab., Furukawa Electr. Co. Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

3-4 Dec 1998

Firstpage

356

Abstract

We have fabricated and evaluated fibre grating lasers (FGLs) consisting of a strained layer (SL) MQW semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and a distributed fibre Bragg grating reflector, for use in WDM transmitters. By using 600 μm long SL MQW SOAs in conjunction with a precisely positioned fiber Bragg grating, high fiber output power and bit rates up to 2.5 Gbit/s can be realized. As the lasers exhibit low noise, we also expect to use them in optical cable television systems

Keywords

Bragg gratings; cable television; optical fibre subscriber loops; optical transmitters; quantum well lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 Gbit/s; 600 mum; Gbit/s WDM transmitters; bit rates; distributed fibre Bragg grating reflector; fibre grating lasers; high fiber output power; high power fiber grating lasers; low noise; optical cable television systems; precisely positioned fiber Bragg grating; strained layer MQW semiconductor optical amplifier; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Optical noise; Optical transmitters; Power lasers; Quantum well devices; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4947-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1998.739709

Filename

739709