Title :
Cascaded Fabry-Pérot lasers for coherent expansion of wavelength tunable gain switched comb
Author :
Deseada Gutierrez Pascual, M. ; Anandarajah, Prince M. ; Rui Zhou ; Smyth, Frank ; Latkowski, S. ; Barry, Liam P.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. Eng., Dublin City Univ., Dublin, Ireland
Abstract :
We propose a simple potentially integrable configuration for expanding a wavelength tunable comb by cascading gain switched Fabry-Pérot lasers. A 10GHz spaced comb, exhibiting 13 coherent low-linewidth tones within a 3 dB window, and tunable over 20 nm is demonstrated.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; laser tuning; optical switches; solid lasers; cascading gain switched Fabry-Perot lasers; coherent expansion; coherent low-linewidth tones; wavelength tunable gain switched comb; Gain; Laser mode locking; Optical fibers; Optical switches; Semiconductor lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964019
