Fast power control and wavelength switching in a tunable SOA-integrated SGDBR laser

Author

Lv, Hui ; Shu, Tan ; Yu, Yonglin ; Huang, Dexiu ; Dong, Lei ; Zhang, Ruikang

Author_Institution

Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2009

fDate

13-17 July 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrated fast optical power control and wavelength switching in a tunable SOA-integrated SGDBR laser. With our design, output power of the laser can be precisely controlled within 0.1 dB and rapidly shuttered within 2 ns.

Keywords

diffraction gratings; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; integrated optics; laser tuning; optical control; optical fibre communication; power control; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication control; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM; fast optical power control; precise laser control; sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector; semiconductor optical amplifier; tunable SOA-integrated SGDBR laser; wavelength switching; High speed optical techniques; Mirrors; Optical control; Optical packet switching; Power control; Power generation; Power lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2009. OECC 2009. 14th

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4102-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4103-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OECC.2009.5218252

Filename

5218252