• DocumentCode
    795575
  • Title

    Mechanism for enhanced gain-periodicity in truncated-well gain-coupled DFB lasers

  • Author

    Adams, D.M. ; Makino, T.

  • Author_Institution
    Adv. Technol. Lab., Bell-Northern Res., Ottawa, Ont., Canada
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    6/8/1995 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    976
  • Lastpage
    977
  • Abstract
    The authors show experimentally that an unexpectedly high singlemode yield for `in-phase´ truncated-well GC-DFBs is attributable to an enhancement of gain modulation owing to preferential injection of carriers into the quantum wells in the grating peaks
  • Keywords
    distributed feedback lasers; laser modes; optical modulation; quantum well lasers; carrier injection; enhanced gain-periodicity; gain modulation; gain-coupled DFB lasers; grating; in-phase truncated-well GC-DFBs; singlemode yield;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19950690
  • Filename
    390989