Generation of wavelength-tunable optical pulses using EDFA as external-injection light source and amplifier for fabry-Pe´rot laser diode

Author

Peng, Peng-Chun ; Peng, Wei-Ren ; Lin, Jia-He ; Lin, Wen-Piao ; Chi, Sien

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. Chiao-Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

Volume

16

Issue

11

fYear

2004

Firstpage

2553

Lastpage

2555

Abstract

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a system for the generation of wavelength-tunable pulses using a gain-switched Fabry-Pe´rot laser diode (FPLD) and an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). The EDFA is used as both an external-injection light source and an amplifier for the FPLD. The wavelength tuning is achieved by a tunable filter. The optical sidemode suppression ratio of this system is better than 32 dB over the wavelength-tunable range of 34.5 nm. Moreover, the repetition frequency is 2000 MHz, and the pulsewidth is between 49.3 and 65.3 ps. The whole system is simple and can be easily constructed.

Keywords

erbium; laser tuning; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical filters; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; 2000 MHz; 49.3 to 65.3 ps; EDFA; Fabry-Perot laser diode; external-injection light source; optical sidemode suppression ratio; tunable filter; wavelength-tunable optical pulse generation; Diode lasers; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Laser tuning; Light sources; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical tuning; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.834885

Filename

1344098