• DocumentCode
    1498901
  • Title

    Post-Growth Fabrication of Multiple Wavelength DFB Laser Arrays With Precise Wavelength Spacing

  • Author

    Zanola, Marco ; Strain, Michael John ; Giuliani, Guido ; Sorel, Marc

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng., Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
  • Volume
    24
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    6/15/2012 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1063
  • Lastpage
    1065
  • Abstract
    The design and experimental characterization of sidewall-etched gratings in III-V material fabricated with a post-growth technique are presented. The successful demonstration of an array of sidewall-etched distributed feedback lasers shows that this technology allows for a very accurate control of the wavelength spacing and a sidemode suppression ratio up to 60 dB.
  • Keywords
    aluminium compounds; diffraction gratings; distributed feedback lasers; etching; gallium compounds; indium compounds; integrated optics; optical fabrication; semiconductor laser arrays; AlGaInAs-InP; III-V material; multiple wavelength DFB laser arrays; post-growth fabrication; sidewall etched gratings; wavelength spacing; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bragg gratings; Distributed feedback devices; Gratings; Laser modes; Waveguide lasers; Distributed feedback laser array; integrated optics; lateral Bragg gratings;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2012.2195164
  • Filename
    6186776