• DocumentCode
    1884730
  • Title

    Compact, low power consumption wavelength tunable laser with silicon photonic-wire waveguide micro-ring resonators

  • Author

    Chu, Tao ; Fujioka, Nobuhide ; Nakamura, Shigeru ; Tokushima, Masatoshi ; Ishizaka, Masashige

  • Author_Institution
    Nano Electron. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Tsukuba, Japan
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    20-24 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A silicon photonic-wire waveguide based wavelength tunable laser was firstly demonstrated; whose micro-ring resonator footprint was 700 times 450 mum. Its wavelength tuning range is 38 nm at a tuning power of 26-mW.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; laser tuning; micro-optomechanical devices; micromechanical resonators; optical fibre communication; ring lasers; semiconductor lasers; silicon; waveguide lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; Si; WDM system; low-power consumption laser; microring resonators; power 26 mW; silicon photonic-wire waveguide; wavelength tunable laser; Energy consumption; Laser tuning; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Power lasers; Semiconductor laser arrays; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon; Tunable circuits and devices; Waveguide lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Vienna
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5096-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5287161