Characteristics of shared dispersive element WDM lasers

Author

Doerr, C.R.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

10-13 Nov 1997

Firstpage

232

Abstract

Sources that consist of many lasers that share a dispersive element, such as the MAGIC and the waveguide grating router (WGR) multifrequency lasers (MFL), differ from conventional wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) sources, such as the distributed feedback (DFB) laser, in four main ways: MFLs exhibit high channel spacing accuracy; MFLs have inherent wavelength stabilization; MFLs are uncontrolled mode selection lasers; MFLs are long-cavity lasers. These differences are discussed

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; laser feedback; laser modes; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; semiconductor lasers; waveguide lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; MAGIC lasers; cavity modes; eigenvalues; high channel spacing accuracy; inherent wavelength stabilization; long-cavity lasers; semiconductor optical amplifier; shared dispersive element WDM lasers; uncontrolled mode selection lasers; waveguide grating router multifrequency lasers; Channel spacing; Dispersion; Distributed feedback devices; Gratings; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Laser stability; Magnetic flux leakage; Waveguide lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3895-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1997.645382

Filename

645382