Title :
External injection of a gain switched integrated dual laser source for the generation of widely tunable picosecond pulses with large SMSR
Author :
Clarke, A.M. ; Anandarajah, P. ; Maguire, P.J. ; Barry, L.P.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. Eng., Dublin City Univ., Ireland
Abstract :
By using external injection into a gain-switched source containing two FP lasers we have developed a pulse source that is wavelength tunable over 65 nm, with SMSR > 60 dB across the tuning range.
Keywords :
integrated optics; laser tuning; optical filters; optical pulse generation; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; FP lasers; SMSR; gain switched integrated dual laser source; widely tunable picosecond pulses generation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6