Title :
Widely tunable lasers based on photonic crystals at 1.5 μm
Author :
Kamp, M. ; Uizhofer, C. ; Mahnkopf, S. ; Scherer, H. ; Forchel, A. ; Duan, G.H.
Author_Institution :
Technische Phys., Wurzburg Univ., Germany
Abstract :
We present tunable semiconductor lasers based on two coupled photonic crystal waveguides. The devices have threshold currents below 20 mA, output powers above 20 mW and a tuning range of 30 nm.
Keywords :
laser tuning; optical transmitters; photonic crystals; semiconductor lasers; waveguide lasers; optical communication networks; photonic crystal waveguides; tunable semiconductor lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
