Title :
Photonic generation of tunable ultra-wideband signals using an SOA-integrated SGDBR laser
Author :
Lv, Hui ; Yu, Yonglin ; Shu, Tan ; Huang, Dexiu ; Jiang, Shan ; Barry, Liam P.
Author_Institution :
Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate tunable ultra-wideband (UWB) pulse generation by direct current modulation of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) section of an SOA-integrated sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector (SGDBR) laser.
Keywords :
distributed Bragg reflector lasers; microwave photonics; pulse generators; semiconductor optical amplifiers; ultra wideband technology; SOA-integrated SGDBR laser; photonic generation; pulse generation; sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector laser; semiconductor optical amplifier; tunable ultra-wideband signals; Integrated circuit modeling; Laser theory; Masers; Modulation; Photonics; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621149
