Low dispersion penalty and wide temperature range operation over 120 K with 1.55 μm strained MQW-DFB laser module

Author

Idler, W. ; Pagnod, P. ; Jacquet, J. ; Klenk, Markus ; Lehnich, M. ; Schlereth, K.H. ; Wiedermann, P. ; Deppisch, B. ; Mayer, H.P.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Components Div., Alcatel SEL, Stuttgart, Germany

Volume

31

Issue

7

fYear

1995

fDate

3/30/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

568

Lastpage

569

Abstract

STM 16 (2.488 Gbit/s) system operation over a wide DFB chip temperature range of more than 120 K (from -25°C to +95°C) is presented with dispersion penalty below 1 dB after transmission across 100 km standard fibre. DFB operation at 1.55 μm with a high sidemode suppression ratio of 40 dB is achieved within -40°C to +95°C. The lasers were realised using a BRS lateral structure and a quaternary InGaAsP MQW stack with six compressively strained quantum wells and a highly detuned DFB grating

Keywords

digital communication; distributed feedback lasers; laser beam applications; optical fibre communication; quantum well lasers; -40 to 95 C; 1.55 micron; 100 km; 2.488 Gbit/s; BRS lateral structure; InGaAsP; STM 16 system operation; compressively strained quantum wells; highly detuned DFB grating; low dispersion penalty operation; quaternary InGaAsP MQW stack; sidemode suppression ratio; standard fibre; strained MQW-DFB laser module; wide temperature range operation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:19950388

Filename

381775