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
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