A new tunable laser using a single electroabsorption tuning super structure grating for subnanosecond switching applications

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 598-606

  Alibert, Guilhem ^a,b   Delorme, Franck ^a,c,d,e   Grosmaire, Serge ^a   Slempkes, Serge ^a   Ougazzaden, Abdallah ^a   Nakajima, H ^a  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c France Telecom ^*

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e French Society of Physics   (France)

Author keywords

Electroabsorption; Super structure grating; Switching time; Tunable laser; WDM applications

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LASER TUNING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTIMIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR (DBR) LASERS; ELECTROABSORPTION (EA) TUNING SUPER STRUCTURE GRATING (SSG);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031109166     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.605711     Document Type: Article

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