Title :
Over 50-mW fiber coupled power and 40-nm tuning range of an extremely compact external cavity wavelength tunable laser
Author :
Sato, K. ; De Merlier, J. ; Mizutani, K. ; Sudo, S. ; Watanabe, S. ; Tsuruoka, K. ; Naniwae, K. ; Kudo, K.
Author_Institution :
Syst. Devices Res. Lab., NEC Corp., Otsu, Japan
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate very high fiber coupled power of more than 50 mW and 45-dB side mode suppression ratio (SMSR) with continuous tuning over the full C-band by an external cavity wavelength tunable laser without an intracavity etalon.
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser tuning; liquid crystals; optical fibre communication; optical transmitters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; DWDM systems; external cavity wavelength tunable laser; fiber coupled power; intracavity etalon; liquid crystal tunable mirror; semiconductor optical amplifier; side mode suppression ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
