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
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