Title :
Suppression of Thermal Wavelength Drift in SSG-DBR Laser with Thermal Drift Compensation Structure
Author :
Fujiwara, Naoki ; Ishii, Hiroyuki ; Okamoto, Hiroshi ; Kawaguchi, Yoshihiro ; Kondo, Yasuhiro ; Oohashi, Hiromi
Author_Institution :
NTT Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Kanagawa
Abstract :
Thermal wavelength drift in an SSG-DBR laser is suppressed by introducing thermal drift compensation waveguide to DBR laser. Injecting a compensatory current into the thermal drift compensation waveguide reduces the wavelength drift from 1 GHz to around 0.1 GHz
Keywords :
distributed Bragg reflector lasers; laser beams; laser tuning; semiconductor lasers; SSG-DBR laser; thermal drift compensation waveguide; thermal wavelength drift; Absorption; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Laboratories; Laser tuning; Photonics; Plasma waves; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Waveguide lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Semiconductor Laser Conference, 2006. Conference Digest. 2006 IEEE 20th International
Conference_Location :
Kohala Coast, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9560-3
DOI :
10.1109/ISLC.2006.1708071
