Potentially low-cost widely tunable laser consisting of a semiconductor optical amplifier connected directly to a silica waveguide grating router

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1446-1448

  Doerr, C R ^a   Stulz, L W ^a   Pafchek, R ^b   Dreyer, K ^a   Zhang, L ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b TRIQUINT SEMICONDUCTOR   (United States)

Author keywords

Gratings; Laser tuning; Semiconductor lasers; Tunable oscillators; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; MODAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SILICA; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; SILICA WAVEGUIDE GRATING ROUTER; SUBMICROMETER ALIGNMENTS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0141918511     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.818244     Document Type: Article

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