A Monolithic Wideband Wavelength-Tunable Laser Diode Integrated With a Ring/MZI Loop Filter

Author

Okamoto, Takeshi ; Sudo, Shinya ; Tsuruoka, Kiyotaka ; Nielsen, Mads L. ; Mizutani, Kenji ; Sato, Kenji ; Kudo, Koji

Author_Institution

Nanoelectron. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Otsu

Volume

15

Issue

3

fYear

2009

Firstpage

488

Lastpage

493

Abstract

We propose a widely tunable and low insertion loss loop filter incorporating two ring resonators and an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer. A semiconductor optical amplifier, phase control section, and loop filter are monolithically integrated on one chip in the InP-InGaAsP material system. The tuning range of 39 nm with side-mode suppression ratio of over 30 dB was demonstrated. The maximum of the total heater power over the tuning range was 84 mW.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; gallium arsenide; gallium compounds; indium compounds; integrated optics; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; phase control; semiconductor optical amplifiers; InP-InGaAsP; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; integrated optics; low insertion loss loop filter; phase control section; power 84 mW; ring resonator; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength 39 nm; wideband wavelength-tunable laser diode; Diode lasers; Insertion loss; Laser tuning; Optical filters; Optical losses; Optical ring resonators; Optical tuning; Resonator filters; Tunable circuits and devices; Wideband; Mach–Zehnder interferometer; optical communication; ring resonators; semiconductor lasers; tunable lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2016579

Filename

5068484