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
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"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341720
