Title :
Novel thermal drift suppression method in channel switching of mode-hop-free tunable laser array
Author :
Nunoya, Nobuhiro ; Ishii, Hiroyuki ; Fujiwara, Naoki ; Oohashi, Hiromi
Author_Institution :
NTT Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Atsugi, Japan
Abstract :
A switching time of less than 40 ¿s has been achieved for a TDA-DFB laser array with a thermal drift suppression technique using the tuning regions of non-lasing lasers as heaters for temperature compensation.
Keywords :
compensation; distributed feedback lasers; laser modes; laser tuning; optical switches; semiconductor laser arrays; TDA-DFB laser array; channel switching; heaters; mode-hop-free tunable laser array; nonlasing lasers; temperature compensation; thermal drift suppression; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Fiber lasers; Laser modes; Laser tuning; Optical arrays; Photonics; Semiconductor laser arrays; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1
