Discretely tunable laser based on filtered feedback for telecommunication applications

Boudewijn Docter; Jose Pozo; Stefano Beri; Ilya V. Ermakov; Jan Danckaert; Meint K. Smit; Fouad Karouta

doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2038072

Discretely tunable laser based on filtered feedback for telecommunication applications

Boudewijn Docter^*, Jose Pozo, Stefano Beri, Ilya V. Ermakov, Jan Danckaert, Meint K. Smit, Fouad Karouta

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A novel discretely tunable laser based on filtered feedback is presented. The semiconductor device consists of a Fabry - Perot laser with deeply etched broadband distributed Bragg reflector mirrors. Single-mode operation is achieved by using feedback from an integrated filter. This filter contains an arrayed waveguide grating wavelength router and a semiconductor optical amplifier gate array. Design, simulation, and the first characterization results of this new integrated filtered-feedback tunable laser device are presented. It shows a combination of a simple and robust switching algorithm with good wavelength stability. A rate equation model predicts that a properly designed device can switch within 1 ns. The fast switching and reduced control complexity makes the device very promising for various advanced applications in optical telecommunication networks.

Original language	English
Article number	5373898
Pages (from-to)	1405-1412
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
Volume	16
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2038072
Publication status	Published - Sept 2010

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