Broadband tuning in optical communication band using Fabry-Perot laser diodes without antireflection coating

Yi-Shin Su; Fei-Hung Chu; Ching-Fuh Lin

doi:10.1117/12.475775

3 July 2003 Broadband tuning in optical communication band using Fabry-Perot laser diodes without antireflection coating

Yi-Shin Su, Fei-Hung Chu, Ching-Fuh Lin

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Proceedings Volume 4995, Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers II; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.475775
Event: Integrated Optoelectronics Devices, 2003, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

A broadly tunable range of 200 nm is achieved in external cavity semiconductor laser using a Fabry-Perot laser diode as an amplifier. The broadband tuning is possible due to two reasons. First, the gain bandwidth is broadened using proper design of nonidentical quantum-well structure. Second, carriers distribute over a broad bandwidth, leading to the reduction of gain over a narrow bandwidth. Thus self-oscillation of uncoated Fabry-Perot laser didoes is suppressed, but there is still gain for external-cavity configuration. A tuning range covering from 1340nm to 1540nm is then achieved.

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Yi-Shin Su, Fei-Hung Chu, and Ching-Fuh Lin "Broadband tuning in optical communication band using Fabry-Perot laser diodes without antireflection coating", Proc. SPIE 4995, Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers II, (3 July 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.475775

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