• DocumentCode
    450268
  • Title

    Over 50-mW fiber coupled power and 40-nm tuning range of an extremely compact external cavity wavelength tunable laser

  • Author

    Sato, K. ; De Merlier, J. ; Mizutani, K. ; Sudo, S. ; Watanabe, S. ; Tsuruoka, K. ; Naniwae, K. ; Kudo, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Syst. Devices Res. Lab., NEC Corp., Otsu, Japan
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    25-29 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    889
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate very high fiber coupled power of more than 50 mW and 45-dB side mode suppression ratio (SMSR) with continuous tuning over the full C-band by an external cavity wavelength tunable laser without an intracavity etalon.
  • Keywords
    laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser tuning; liquid crystals; optical fibre communication; optical transmitters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; DWDM systems; external cavity wavelength tunable laser; fiber coupled power; intracavity etalon; liquid crystal tunable mirror; semiconductor optical amplifier; side mode suppression ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    IET
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-86341-543-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1584245