DocumentCode
516123
Title
Novel thermal drift suppression method in channel switching of mode-hop-free tunable laser array
Author
Nunoya, Nobuhiro ; Ishii, Hiroyuki ; Fujiwara, Naoki ; Oohashi, Hiromi
Author_Institution
NTT Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Atsugi, Japan
fYear
2010
fDate
21-25 March 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
A switching time of less than 40 ¿s has been achieved for a TDA-DFB laser array with a thermal drift suppression technique using the tuning regions of non-lasing lasers as heaters for temperature compensation.
Keywords
compensation; distributed feedback lasers; laser modes; laser tuning; optical switches; semiconductor laser arrays; TDA-DFB laser array; channel switching; heaters; mode-hop-free tunable laser array; nonlasing lasers; temperature compensation; thermal drift suppression; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Fiber lasers; Laser modes; Laser tuning; Optical arrays; Photonics; Semiconductor laser arrays; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-55752-884-1
Type
conf
Filename
5465837
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