Design of a new chirped grating DBR laser using bent waveguides for improved side-mode suppression ratio

Author

Bozorgui, S. ; Destrez, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

3-4 Dec 1998

Firstpage

426

Abstract

Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR) lasers with continuously and arbitrarily chirped gratings are potentially attractive devices in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems. A new method of implementing chirped gratings using bent waveguides on homogenous gratings fields has previously been proposed. In this method the grating can be quasi-continuously chirped with an ultrahigh spatial precision. Recently, we proposed a new “chirped DBR gartings” based on this method to improve and tailor specific properties. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the design of a new chirped DBR grating for improved side mode suppression ratio (SMSR) in DBR lasers

Keywords

chirp modulation; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; laser modes; waveguide lasers; DBR laser; bent waveguide; chirped grating; side mode suppression ratio; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Laser modes; Laser tuning; Optical design; Optical waveguides; Reflectivity; Waveguide lasers; 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.1998.739796

Filename

739796