• DocumentCode
    2400174
  • Title

    Widely tunable lasers: the digital supermode DBR

  • Author

    Whitbread, Neil

  • Author_Institution
    Bookham Technol. plc, Towcester, UK
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    27-28 Oct. 2003
  • Firstpage
    634
  • Abstract
    This paper describes a broadly tunable digital supermode (DS) DBR laser with a novel chirped front grating. The low level of spectral reflection ripple exhibited by this type of grating enhances modal discrimination.
  • Keywords
    chirp modulation; diffraction gratings; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; infrared spectra; laser modes; laser tuning; reflectivity; semiconductor lasers; DBR laser; chirped front grating; digital supermode DBR; modal discrimination; spectral reflection ripple; wide tunable laser; Bragg gratings; Calibration; Chirp; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Laser modes; Laser tuning; Optical design; Optical reflection; Tunable circuits and devices; Waveguide lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7888-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2003.1252960
  • Filename
    1252960