Widely tunable Y-coupled cavity integrated interferometric injection laser

Author

Schilling, M. ; Schweizer, H. ; Dutting, K. ; Idler, W. ; Kuhn, Eva ; Nowitzki, A. ; Wunstel, K.

Author_Institution

SEL-ALCATEL, Stuttgart, West Germany

Volume

26

Issue

4

fYear

1990

Firstpage

243

Lastpage

244

Abstract

A novel tunable single mode light source has been developed in the InGaAsP/InP material system. The Y-coupled cavity (YCC) type integrated interferometric injection (I³) wavelength tunable laser operates in the 1300 nm wavelength region with a sidemode suppression of about 20 dB. By adjusting the currents through the four all active sections of this YCC-I³-laser, a total tuning range of more than 14 nm and continuous tuning of 1.15 nm was obtained from non-optimised first devices.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; gallium compounds; indium compounds; integrated optics; laser cavity resonators; laser transitions; laser tuning; light interferometers; optical communication equipment; optical waveguides; semiconductor junction lasers; 1300 nm; III-V semiconductors; InGaAsP-InP; Y-coupled cavity; coherent optical transmission systems; integrated interferometric injection laser; integrated optics; optical waveguides; semiconductor lasers; sidemode suppression; tunable single mode light source; wavelength tunable laser;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:19900163

Filename

82585