Title :
Photocurrent driven widely-tunable wavelength converter based on a directly modulated bipolar cascade SGDBR laser
Author :
Klamkin, Jonathan ; Johansson, Lief A. ; Getty, Jonathan T. ; Hutchinson, John M. ; Skogen, Erik J. ; Coldren, Larry A.
Author_Institution :
Mater. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
A monolithically integrated tunable wavelength converter based on a bipolar cascade SGDBR laser is presented. Enhanced conversion efficiency is achieved and error free operation at 2.5 Gb/s with a NRZ 231-1 PRBS is demonstrated.
Keywords :
distributed Bragg reflector lasers; electro-optical modulation; integrated optoelectronics; laser tuning; optical fibre communication; optical transmitters; optical wavelength conversion; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 Gbit/s; NRZ; PRBS; SGDBR laser; WDM systems; bipolar cascade laser; directly modulated laser; enhanced conversion efficiency; error free operation; laser transmitter; monolithically integrated converter; photocurrent driven converter; wavelength converter; widely-tunable converter; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Photoconductivity; Quantum cascade lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363129
