• DocumentCode
    3701026
  • Title

    16-Channel digitally wavelength-tunable hybrid III-V/silicon laser

  • Author

    G. de Valicourt;P. Dong;K. W. Kim;C-M. Chang;J. H. Sinsky;L.L. Buhl;Y. K. Chen

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, 791 Holmdel Road, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    A novel 16-channel digitally wavelength-tunable laser is proposed and experimentally demonstrated using a semiconductor optical amplifier and silicon photonic integrated circuit. The device exhibits a laser threshold below 45 mA, SMSR around 20-25 dB and nanosecond switching time.
  • Keywords
    "Optical switches","Cavity resonators","Silicon","Arrayed waveguide gratings","Semiconductor optical amplifiers","Wavelength division multiplexing"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341720
  • Filename
    7341720