Fabrication of tunable sampled grating DBR-LD using integrated optical semiconductor amplifier with a lateral tapered waveguide

Author

Oh, Su Hwan ; Lee, Ji-Myon ; Kim, Ki Soo ; Ko, Hyunsung ; Lee, Chul-Wook ; Park, Sahnggi ; Park, Moon-Ho

Author_Institution

Opt. Source & Detector Team, ETRI-Basic Res. Lab., Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2004

fDate

31 May-4 June 2004

Firstpage

239

Lastpage

240

Abstract

We have demonstrated a high-power widely tunable SG-DBR laser monolithically integrated with a SOA. The structure of SOA is a lateral tapered waveguide and a wideband AR coating. Fiber coupled output power is more than 10 dBm of CW operation, and the output power variation was ∼1 dB.

Keywords

antireflection coatings; diffraction gratings; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; laser tuning; optical fabrication; optical fibre couplers; optical waveguides; semiconductor optical amplifiers; fiber coupled output power; integrated optical semiconductor amplifier; lateral tapered waveguide; tunable sampled grating DBR-LD; Gratings; Integrated optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical waveguides; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Semiconductor waveguides; Stimulated emission; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Indium Phosphide and Related Materials, 2004. 16th IPRM. 2004 International Conference on

ISSN

1092-8669

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8595-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIPRM.2004.1442657

Filename

1442657