High slope efficiency and low noise characteristics in tapered-active-stripe DFB lasers with narrow beam divergence

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1765-1770

  Kito, Masahiro ^a,b,c   Inaba, Yuichi ^a,c,d   Nakayama, Hisashi ^a,b,c   Chino, Toyoji ^a,c,e   Ishino, Masato ^a,c,f,g   Matsui, Yasushi ^a,c,e   Itoh, Kunio ^a,e,f  

^a PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARROW BEAM DIVERGENCE;

LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 0033320565     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.806578     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. T. L. Koch, U. Koren, G. Eisenstein, M. G. Young, M. Oron, C. R. Giles, and B. I. Miller, "Tapered waveguide InGaAs/InGaAsP multiple-quantum-well lasers," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 2, pp. 88-90, 1990.
2. R. Ben-Michael, U. Koren, B. I. Miller, M. G. Young, M. Chien, and G. Raybon, "InP-based multiple quantum well lasers with an integrated tapered beam expander waveguide," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 6, pp. 1412-1414, 1994.
3. H. Kobayashi, M. Ekawa, N. Okazaki, O. Aoki, S. Ogita, and H. Soda, "Tapered thickness MQW waveguide BH MQW lasers," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 6, pp. 1080-1081, 1994.
4. I. F. Lealman, L. J. Rivers, M. J. Harlow, S. D. Perrin, and M. J. Robertson, "1.56μm InGaAsP/InP tapered active layer multiquantum well laser with improved coupling to cleaved singlemode fiber," Electron. Lett., vol. 30, pp. 857-859, 1994.
5. P. Doussiere, P. Garabelian, C. Graver, E. Derouin, E. Gaumont-Goarin, G. Michaud, and R. Meilleur, "Tapered active stripe for 1.5-μm InGaAsP/InP strained multiple quantum well lasers with reduced beam divergence," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 64, pp. 539-541, 1994.
6. Y. Tohmori, Y. Suzuki, H. Oohashi, Y. Sakai, Y. Kondo, H. Okamoto, M. Okamoto, Y. Kadota, O. Mitomi, Y. Itaya, and T. Sugie, "High temperature operation with low-loss coupling to fiber for narrow-beam 1.3 μm lasers with butt-jointed selective grown spot-size converter," Electron. Lett., vol. 31, pp. 1838-1840, 1995.
7. H. Sato, M. Aoki, M. Takahashi, M. Komori, K, Uomi, and S. Tsuji, "1.3μm beam-expander integrated laser grown by single-step MOVPE," Electron. Lett., vol. 31, pp. 1241-1242, 1995.
8. H. Fukano, Y. Kadota, Y. Kondo, M. Ueki, Y. Sakai, K. Kasaya, K. Yokoyama, and Y. Tohmori, "1.3 μm large spot-size laser diodes with laterally tapered active layer," Electron. Lett., vol. 31, pp. 1439-1440, 1995.
9. A. Kasukawa, N. Yamakawa, N. Iwai, and N. Yokouchi, "Structural dependence of 1.3 μm narrow beam lasers fabricated by selective MOCVD," Electron. Lett., vol. 32, pp. 1304-1305, 1996.
10. H. Yamazaki, K. Kudo, T. Sasaki, J. Sasaki, Y. Furushima, Y. Sakata, M. Itoh, and M. Yamaguchi, "1.3-μm spot-size-converter integrated laser diodes fabricated by narrow-stripe selective MOVPE," IEEE J. Select. Topics Quantum Electron., vol. 3, pp. 1392-1398, 1997.
11. L. N. Langley, D. J. Robbins, P. J. Williams, T. J. Reid, I. Moerman, X. Zhang, P. Van Daele, and P. Demeester, "DFB laser with integrated waveguide taper grown by shadow masked MOVPE," Electron. Lett., vol. 32, pp. 738-739, 1996.
12. M. Aoki, M. Komori, H. Sato, T. Tsuchiya, A. Taike, M. Takahashi, K. Uomi, and S. Tsuji, "Reliable wide-temperature-range operation of 1.3-μm beam-expander integrated laser diode for passively aligned optical modules," IEEE J. Select. Topics Quantum Electron., vol. 3, pp. 1405-1412, 1997.
13. M. Kito, N. Otsuka, T. Nishikawa, Y. Inaba, M. Ishino, T. Uno, and Y. Matsui, "Narrow beam divergence of 1.3 μm MQW lasers with tapered active stripe," in Proc. Optoelectronics and Communications Conf. OEEC'96, Chiba, Japan, July 1996, pp. 574-575, paper 19D2-3.
14. Y. Inaba, M. Kito, T. Nishikawa, M. Ishino, and Y. Matsui, "Low threshold current and high efficiency of 1.3 μm MQW lasers with tapered active stripe for butt-coupling to single-mode fiber," in Proc. Optical Fiber Communications Conf. OFC 97, Dallas, TX, Feb. 1997, pp. 330-331, paper ThR5.
15. _, "Multiquantum-well lasers with tapered active stripe for direct coupling to single-mode fiber," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 9, pp. 722-724, 1997.
16. _, "High-temperature operation of 1.3 μm tapered-active-stripe laser for direct coupling to single-mode fiber," IEEE J. Select. Topics Quantum Electron., vol. 3, pp. 1399-1404, 1997.
17. M. Kito, Y. Inaba, T. Chino, M. Ishino, and Y. Matsui, "DFB lasers with tapered active stripe for narrow beam divergence," in Proc. Optical Fiber Communications Conf. OFC'98, San Jose, CA, Feb. 1998, pp. 377-378, paper FB2.
18. M. Kito, S. Nakamura, N. Otsuka, M. Ishino, and Y. Matsui, "New structure of gain-coupled 1.3 μm strained-layer multi-quantum well complex-coupled distributed feedback lasers," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol. 35, pp. 1375-1377, 1996.
19. Y. Inaba, M. Kito, J. Ohya, M. Ishino, and Y. Matsui, "High output-power and narrow spectral-linewidth operation of 1.3-μm gain-coupled DFB laser with InAsP buried absorptive grating," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 10, pp. 1220-1222, 1998.
20. M. Kito, N. Otsuka, Y. Yabuuchi, S. Nakamuram M. Ishino, and Y. Matsui, "Formation of InAsP layer on corrugated InP substrate by MOVPE for buried grating of DFB lasers," in Proc. Int. Conf. Indium Phosphide and Related Materials IPRM'97, Cape Cod, MA, May 1997, pp. 606-609, paper ThB5.
21. M. Kito, N. Otsuka, N. Takenaka, M. Ishino, and Y. Matsui, "Low distortion characteristics of gain-coupled DFB lasers," in Proc. Eur. Conf. Optical Communication ECOC'96, Oslo, Norway, Sept. 1996, pp. 1.107-1.109, paper MoC.3.3.
22. M. Yamada and K. Sakuda, "Analysis of almost-periodic distributed feedback slab waveguides via a fundamental matrix approach," Appl. Opt., vol. 26, pp. 3474-3478, 1987.