Spectral linewidth reduction in widely wavelength tunable DFB laser array

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 514-520

  Ishii, Hiroyuki ^a   Kasaya, Kazuo ^a   Oohashi, Hiromi ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed feedback (DFB) lasers; Optical fiber communications; Optical transmitters; Tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

DFB LASER; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK (DFB) LASERS; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; NEW DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS; OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS; OUTPUT POWER; SIDE MODE SUPPRESSION RATIOS; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH; TUNABLE LASERS; TUNING RANGES; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE; WIDE WAVELENGTH TUNING;

FEEDBACK; LASER TUNING; LASERS; LINEWIDTH; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; TRANSMITTERS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 67650917885     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2010237     Document Type: Article

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