Title :
Time-resolved linewidth measurements of a wavelength switched SG-DBR laser for optical packet switched networks
Author :
Mishra, Akhilesh Kumar ; Ellis, A.D. ; Barry, Liam P. ; Farrell, T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland
Abstract :
We report time-resolved linewidth measurements of different sizes of optical packets under wavelength-switching for the first time and show that laser linewidth is significantly broadened during switching transition requiring ~3 μs to attain its minimum value.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; optical fibre networks; optical switches; packet switching; laser linewidth; optical packet switched networks; sampled-grating distributed Bragg reflector laser; switching transition; time-resolved linewidth measurements; wavelength switched SG-DBR laser; wavelength-switching; Optical packet switching; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528577
