Photocurrent driven widely-tunable wavelength converter based on a directly modulated bipolar cascade SGDBR laser

Author

Klamkin, Jonathan ; Johansson, Lief A. ; Getty, Jonathan T. ; Hutchinson, John M. ; Skogen, Erik J. ; Coldren, Larry A.

Author_Institution

Mater. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

7-11 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

98

Abstract

A monolithically integrated tunable wavelength converter based on a bipolar cascade SGDBR laser is presented. Enhanced conversion efficiency is achieved and error free operation at 2.5 Gb/s with a NRZ 2³¹-1 PRBS is demonstrated.

Keywords

distributed Bragg reflector lasers; electro-optical modulation; integrated optoelectronics; laser tuning; optical fibre communication; optical transmitters; optical wavelength conversion; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 Gbit/s; NRZ; PRBS; SGDBR laser; WDM systems; bipolar cascade laser; directly modulated laser; enhanced conversion efficiency; error free operation; laser transmitter; monolithically integrated converter; photocurrent driven converter; wavelength converter; widely-tunable converter; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Photoconductivity; Quantum cascade lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8557-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363129

Filename

1363129