Title : 
Widely tuneable modulated grating Y-branch Chirp Managed Laser
         
        
            Author : 
Matsui, Yasuhiro ; Mahgerefteh, Daniel ; Zheng, Xueyan ; Ye, Xiong ; McCallion, Kevin ; Xu, Haitao ; Deutsch, Michael ; Lewen, Robert ; Wesström, Jan-Olof ; Schatz, Richard ; Rigole, Pierre-Jean
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Finisar Corporation, 36 Jonspin Rd., Wilmington, MA 01887, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We developed a 45 nm tuneable 18 GHz 3-dB bandwidth Modulated-Grating Y-branch laser and demonstrated a error-free 200- km transmission at 10 Gb/s with a drive voltage of 1.5 Vpp using Chirp Managed Laser technology.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Bandwidth; Chirp modulation; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Energy consumption; Frequency modulation; Gratings; Laser tuning; Optical modulation; Technology management; Tunable circuits and devices;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Vienna
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-5096-1