Title :
Injection-locked 1.55-μm tunable VCSEL for uncooled WDM transmitter applications
Author :
Chrostowski, Lukas ; Chang, Chih-Hao ; Chang-Hasnain, Connie J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
fDate :
3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We study the temperature effects on injection-locked vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for use in wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) transmitters. We show that injection locking can be used to lock an uncooled VCSEL to the WDM grid while improving its analog performance.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.55 mum; injection locking; tunable VCSEL; uncooled WDM transmitters; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; wavelength-division-multiplexed transmitters; Distributed feedback devices; Injection-locked oscillators; Laser feedback; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Temperature; Transmitters; Tunable circuits and devices; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2004.823705
