40 Gb/s widely tunable wavelength converter with a photocurrent-driven high-impedance TW-EAM and SGDBR laser

Author

Dummer, Matthew M. ; Klamkin, Jonathan ; Tauke-Pedretti, Anna ; Coldren, Larry A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of ECE, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA

fYear

2008

fDate

14-18 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

145

Lastpage

146

Abstract

We demonstrate a monolithic transceiver which integrates pre-amplified QW-pin receiver with a tunable SGDBR laser and high-impedance EAM. This device performs wavelength conversion at 40 Gb/s over 22 nm of optical bandwidth.

Keywords

diffraction gratings; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; electric impedance; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; laser tuning; monolithic integrated circuits; optical receivers; optical wavelength conversion; p-i-n photodiodes; photoconductivity; quantum well devices; semiconductor quantum wells; transceivers; wavelength division multiplexing; SGDBR laser; WDM system; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; high-impedance TW-EAM; monolithic transceiver; photocurrent; photonic integration; preamplified QW-pin receiver; quantum well p-i-n photodiode; sampled-grating DBR laser; traveling-wave electroabsorption modulator; tunable wavelength converter; wavelength conversion; Laser tuning; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical saturation; Optical transmitters; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Photoconductivity; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Laser Conference, 2008. ISLC 2008. IEEE 21st International

Conference_Location

Sorrento

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1782-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1783-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISLC.2008.4636051

Filename

4636051