Anomalous dynamic wavelength chirp in gain-switched short optical pulses from absorptive-grating gain-coupled DFB lasers

Author

Sudoh, Tsurugi K. ; Nakano, Yoshiaki ; Tada, Kunio ; Hirata, Takaaki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tokyo Univ., Japan

fYear

1994

fDate

19-23 Sep 1994

Firstpage

53

Lastpage

54

Abstract

Summary form only given. Instantaneous wavelength shifts in gain-switched short optical pulses from absorptive-grating gain-coupled (GC) DFB MQW lasers were measured and compared with those of Fabry-Perot lasers. The GC DFB laser showed characteristic wavelength shifts which resulted in much smaller chirping. Its mechanism is discussed

Keywords

chirp modulation; diffraction gratings; distributed feedback lasers; electro-optical modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical communication equipment; optical couplers; optical solitons; quantum well lasers; spectral line shift; DFB MQW lasers; Fabry-Perot lasers; GC DFB laser; absorptive-grating gain-coupled DFB lasers; anomalous dynamic wavelength chirp; characteristic wavelength shifts; gain-switched; instantaneous wavelength shifts; short optical pulses; Chirp; Distributed feedback devices; Gallium arsenide; Gratings; Laser feedback; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Laser Conference, 1994., 14th IEEE International

Conference_Location

Maui, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1754-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISLC.1994.518915

Filename

518915