Less than 5-ns wavelength switching with an SG-DBR laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 565-567

  Simsarian, John E ^a   Larson, Michael C ^b   Garrett, Henry E ^b   Xu, Hong ^b   Strand, Timothy A ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b JDS UNIPHASE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed Bragg reflector lasers; Flip chip devices; Laser thermal factors; Laser tuning; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LASER TUNING; MIRRORS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG RELFLECTOR LASERS; FLIP-CHIP DEVICES; LASER THERMAL FACTORS; WAVELENGTH SWITCHING;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 32044451560     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.863976     Document Type: Article

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