WDM and hybrid WDM/OTDM applications of the multi-wavelength grating cavity (MGC) laser

Author

White, I.H. ; Owen, M. ; Stephens, M.F.C. ; Vasil´ev, P. ; Bainbridge, J.D. ; Pentry, R.V.

Author_Institution

Centre for Commun. Res., Bristol Univ., UK

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

18-22 Oct. 1999

Firstpage

1429

Abstract

A range of WDM and hybrid WDM/OTDM applications of a multi-wavelength laser are discussed. Firstly, wavelength conversion is demonstrated at 2.488 Gbits/s in several novel WDM network configurations. Secondly multi-wavelength pulse generation is demonstrated with pulse widths of 13.2 ps and at repetition rates of 7.418 GHz. The device used in these experiments is an integrated InGaAs/InGaAsP/InP multi-wavelength laser.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; diffraction gratings; gallium arsenide; gallium compounds; indium compounds; integrated optics; laser beams; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; optical transmitters; optical wavelength conversion; quantum well lasers; time division multiplexing; waveguide lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 13.2 ps; 2.488 Gbit/s; 7.418 GHz; InGaAs-InGaAsP-InP; InGaAs/InGaAsP/InP; WDM applications; WDM network configurations; hybrid WDM/OTDM applications; integrated multi-wavelength laser; multi-wavelength grating cavity laser; multi-wavelength laser; multi-wavelength pulse generation; pulse widths; repetition rates; wavelength conversion; Gratings; Laser modes; Master-slave; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; WDM networks; Waveguide lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1999. APCC/OECC '99. Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on ... and Fourth Optoelectronics and Communications Conference

Conference_Location

Beijing, China

Print_ISBN

7-5635-0402-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.1999.820542

Filename

820542