Fast wavelength switching of a high-speed SG-DBR laser for dynamic wavelength routing

Author

Yu, Yonglin ; O´Duill, Sean ; Gorman, Neal O. ; Mulvihill, Gavin ; O´Dowd, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. Dublin, Ireland

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

583

Abstract

We present new results on the wavelength switching behaviour of a high-speed sampled grating-DBR laser by using a Fabry-Perot interferometer technique. Switching delays of 4-10 ns were measured when driving the back grating section current for jumps spanning one to six modes

Keywords

Fabry-Perot interferometers; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; laser variables measurement; optical communication equipment; optical switches; optical testing; semiconductor device testing; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 4 to 10 ns; Fabry-Perot interferometer; back grating section current; dynamic wavelength routing; fast wavelength switching; high-speed SG-DBR laser; high-speed sampled grating-DBR laser; switching delays; wavelength switching behaviour; Delay; Gratings; Laser stability; Laser tuning; Optical fiber networks; Spinning; Switches; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength measurement; Wavelength routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 2000 Annual Meeting. LEOS 2000. 13th Annual Meeting. IEEE

Conference_Location

Rio Grande

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5947-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2000.893976

Filename

893976