Title :
Digitally tunable ring laser using a ladder filter
Author :
Matsuo, Shinji ; Jeong, Seok-Hwan
Author_Institution :
NTT Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Kanagawa, Japan
Abstract :
A monolithically integrated digitally tunable ring laser has been developed that employs a ladder filter and a ring resonator. A chirped ladder filter, which has one dominant passband, improves the device performance.
Keywords :
band-pass filters; chirp modulation; integrated optoelectronics; ladder filters; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; monolithic integrated circuits; optical filters; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; waveguide lasers; SOA; chirped ladder filter; digitally tunable laser; monolithic integration; output waveguide; passband filter; ring laser; ring resonator; Chirp; Digital filters; Optical filters; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides; Resonator filters; Ring lasers; Semiconductor laser arrays; Tunable circuits and devices; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9217-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548243
