Chirping compensation using a two-section semiconductor laser amplifier

Author

Yazaki, Paulo Akihumi ; Komori, Kazuhiro ; Arai, Shigehisa ; Endo, Atsushi ; Suematsu, Yasuharu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. Electron., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

10

Issue

9

fYear

1992

fDate

9/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1247

Lastpage

1255

Abstract

Compensation of light source chirping and optical fiber dispersion using semiconductor laser amplifiers (SLAs) is investigated using a modeling equation that describes the opposite phase characteristics of light sources to SLAs with self phase modulation. A two-section SLA was fabricated in order to achieve an amplifier with both high gain and phase compensation properties. Preliminary experimental results are presented, confirming the theoretically derived phase compensation effect

Keywords

compensation; distributed feedback lasers; optical dispersion; optical modulation; semiconductor lasers; chirping compensation; dynamic single mode DFB laser; high gain; light source chirping; modeling equation; optical fiber dispersion; phase characteristics; phase compensation; self phase modulation; two-section semiconductor laser amplifier; Chirp; Equations; Fiber lasers; Laser modes; Laser theory; Light sources; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.156876

Filename

156876