Modeling widely tunable sampled-grating DBR lasers using traveling-wave model with digital filter approach

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 3181-3188

  Dong, Lei ^a   Zhang, Ruikang ^b   Wang, Dingli ^c   Zhao, Shengzhi ^a   Jiang, Shan ^b   Yu, Yonglin ^d   Liu, Shuihua ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Accelink Technologies Co Ltd   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Digital filter approach; Dynamic wavelength switching; L I curve; Large signal modulation; SGDBR; Transfer matrix method; Traveling wave method; Widely tunable semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL FILTER APPROACH; DYNAMIC WAVELENGTH SWITCHING; L-I CURVE; LARGE-SIGNAL MODULATION; SGDBR; TRAVELING-WAVE METHOD; WIDELY TUNABLE SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

BAND STRUCTURE; BRAGG CELLS; DIGITAL FILTERS; LASER OPTICS; LASERS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MODULATION; PASSIVE FILTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SWITCHING NETWORKS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 67651149928     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.2009320     Document Type: Article

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