Integrated four-wavelength DFB laser array with 10 Gb/s speed and 5 nm continuous tuning range

Author

Wang, L.A. ; Lo, Y.H. ; Gozdz, A.S. ; Lin, P.S.D. ; Iqbal, M.Z. ; Bhat, R.

Author_Institution

Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ, USA

Volume

4

Issue

4

fYear

1992

fDate

4/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

318

Lastpage

320

Abstract

A 1.5 mu m, four-wavelength DFB (distributed feedback) laser array operating at a speed of 10 Gb/s and with a continuous tuning range of 5 nm for each laser has been demonstrated. An adjacent channel electrical crosstalk penalty of 0.6 dB was measured, and the thermal tuning limitation was identified. Each laser could be modulated at a speed of 10 Gb/s with moderate electrical crosstalk penalty ( approximately 0.6 dB) from the adjacent laser. The high-speed performance was not degraded by thermal tuning up to 3.2 nm.<>

Keywords

crosstalk; distributed feedback lasers; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; semiconductor laser arrays; 0.6 dB; 1.5 micron; 10 Gbit/s; IR sources; InGaAsP; WDM; adjacent channel electrical crosstalk penalty; continuous tuning range; distributed feedback; four-wavelength DFB laser array; high-speed performance; laser modulation; optical switches; semiconductor switches; semiconductors; thermal tuning limitation; Chemical lasers; Chemical technology; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Laser tuning; Optical arrays; Optical crosstalk; Optical feedback; Optical tuning; Wet etching;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.127199

Filename

127199