Title :
Widely Wavelength-Selectable Lasers With Digital Concatenated Grating Reflectors—Proposal and Simulation
Author :
He, Xiaoying ; Huang, Dexiu ; Yu, Yonglin ; Wang, D.N. ; Liu, Wen ; Jiang, Shan
Author_Institution :
Div. of Optoelectron. Deivices & Technol., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan
Abstract :
A digital concatenated grating is presented to tackle that problem of creating a flat ldquotop-hatrdquo comb reflector for tunable lasers. A novel, monolithic, widely tunable semiconductor laser with these gratings is proposed and demonstrated theoretically.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; laser tuning; semiconductor lasers; digital concatenated grating reflectors; flat top-hat comb reflector; semiconductor laser; tunable lasers; widely wavelength-selectable lasers; Concatenated codes; Fiber lasers; Gratings; Helium; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Laser theory; Laser tuning; Semiconductor lasers; Tunable circuits and devices; Grating; laser tuning; semiconductor lasers;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2008.2004676
