Semiconductor ring laser with on-chip filtered optical feedback for discrete wavelength tuning

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 129-136

  Ermakov, Ilya V ^a   Beri, Stefano ^a   Ashour, Mohamed ^a   Danckaert, Jan ^a   Docter, Boudewijn ^b   Bolk, Jeroen ^b   Leijtens, Xaveer J M ^b   Verschaffelt, Guy ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Filtered optical feedback; photonic integrated circuits; ring lasers; semiconductor lasers; tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

COUNTERPROPAGATING; DISCRETELY TUNABLE; FILTERED OPTICAL FEEDBACK; INTEGRATED DEVICE; LONGITUDINAL MODES; NOVEL CONCEPT; ON CHIPS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RING CAVITIES; SEMICONDUCTOR RING LASERS; SINGLE MODE OPERATION; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; INTEGRATION; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; RING LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; WAVEGUIDES;

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EID: 84856249442     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2011.2169945     Document Type: Article

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