Simultaneous chirp compensation and single-mode operation of a self-seeded gain-switched semiconductor laser with a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating

Author

Shenping Li ; Chan, K.T. ; Liu, Y. ; Zhang, L. ; Bennion, I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

Aug. 30 1999-Sept. 3 1999

Firstpage

922

Abstract

A simple and robust self-seeded scheme for simultaneous realization of chirp compensation and single-mode operation was demonstrated using a linearly chirped fibre Bragg grating (LCFBG) external cavity. Chirp-reduced single-mode gigahertz picosecond pulses with a sidemode suppression ratio better than 35 dB were achieved.

Keywords

chirp modulation; compensation; electro-optical modulation; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; semiconductor lasers; chirp compensation; chirp-reduced single-mode gigahertz picosecond pulses; linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating; robust self-seeded scheme; self-seeded gain-switched semiconductor laser; sidemode suppression ratio; simultaneous chirp compensation; simultaneous realization; single-mode operation; Bandwidth; Chirp; Filtering; Lighting control; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Optical reflection; Radio frequency; Spontaneous emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO/Pacific Rim '99. The Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul, South Korea

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5661-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.1999.817902

Filename

817902