Demonstration of monolithically-integrated InP widely-tunable laser and SOA-MZI wavelength converter

Author

Masanovic, Milan L. ; Skogen, Erik J. ; Barton, Jonathon S. ; Lal, Vikrant ; Blumenthal, Daniel J. ; Coldren, Larry A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

289

Lastpage

291

Abstract

The first monolithically integrated widely tunable wavelength converter, consisting of a sampled-grating distributed-Bragg-reflector laser and a semiconductor optical amplifier-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer, is reported. Static extinction ratios better than 19dB and 13dB using electrical and optical control, respectively, were measured over a 22 nm laser wavelength range.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; indium compounds; integrated optoelectronics; semiconductor device measurement; InP; SOA-MZI wavelength converter; monolithically-integrated InP widely-tunable laser; sampled-grating distributed-Bragg-reflector laser; semiconductor optical amplifier-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer; static extinction ratio; Distributed amplifiers; Extinction ratio; Indium phosphide; Integrated optics; Optical interferometry; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Indium Phosphide and Related Materials, 2003. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7704-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIPRM.2003.1205372

Filename

1205372