Title :
High power with low electric power consumption active multi-mode-interferometer laser diode for fibre-amplifier
Author :
Hamamoto, K. ; Naniwae, K. ; Ohya, M.
Author_Institution :
Photonic & Wireless Device Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Ibaraki, Japan
fDate :
5/23/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Active multi-mode interferometer laser diodes (LDs), implemented in InGaAsP/InP, achieved a significant reduction of 40% (at 0.4 W output) in electric power consumption compared to regular single lobe LDs. With them, a high output power of 0.7 W was also obtained at 14XX nm
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; gallium compounds; indium compounds; laser modes; light interferometers; optical fibre amplifiers; semiconductor lasers; 0.7 W; InGaAsP-InP; InGaAsP/InP; active multi-mode interferometer laser diodes; electric power consumption; fibre-amplifier; high output power; low power consumption;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20020362
