Silicon Photonic Hybrid Ring-Filter External Cavity Wavelength Tunable Lasers

Author

Kobayashi, Naoki ; Sato, Kenji ; Namiwaka, Masahiko ; Yamamoto, Keisuke ; Watanabe, Shinya ; Kita, Tomohiro ; Yamada, Hirohito ; Yamazaki, Hiroyuki

Author_Institution

PLC Dev. Group, NEC Yamanashi Ltd., Yamanashi, Japan

Volume

33

Issue

6

fYear

2015

fDate

March15, 15 2015

Firstpage

1241

Lastpage

1246

Abstract

Si-photonic hybrid ring external cavity wavelength tunable lasers by passive alignment techniques with more than 100-mW fiber-coupled power and linewidth narrower than 15 kHz along the whole C-band are demonstrated. These attractive performances are achieved due to very low loss Si-wire waveguides, of which loss is lower than 0.5 dB/cm. Obtained results show excellent features of Si-photonics toward commercial products.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; optical losses; optical waveguide filters; quantum well lasers; ring lasers; silicon; waveguide lasers; C-band; Si; low loss Si-wire waveguides; passive alignment techniques; silicon photonic hybrid ring-filter external cavity wavelength tunable lasers; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides; Power generation; Ring lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Waveguide lasers; Booster semiconductor optical amplifier; booster SOA; digital coherent system; external cavity (EC) laser; external cavity laser; passive alignment; ring resonator; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); silicon photonics; silicon wire-waveguide; wavelength tunable laser;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2014.2385106

Filename

6994779