Widely tunable electroabsorption-modulated sampled-grating DBR laser transmitter

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1349-1357

  Akulova, Yuliya A ^a   Fish, Gregory A ^a,b   Koh, Ping Chiek ^a   Schow, Clint L ^a   Kozodoy, Peter ^a   Dahl, Anders P ^a   Nakagawa, Shigeru ^a,b   Larson, Michael C ^a,b   Mack, Michael P ^a   Strand, Timothy A ^a,b   Coldren, Christopher W ^a   Hegblom, Eric ^a   Penniman, Steven K ^a   Wipiejewski, Torsten ^a,b   Coldren, Larry A ^a,b  

^a JDS UNIPHASE   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optoelectronics; Laser tuning; Optical communications; Optical modulation; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER MODES; LASER TUNING; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MIRRORS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TRANSMITTERS;

ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATOR; LASER TRANSMITTER; SAMPLED GRATING DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 0036881390     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2002.806677     Document Type: Article

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