Wide tunable double ring resonator coupled lasers

被引:147
作者
Liu, B [1 ]
Shakouri, A
Bowers, JE
机构
[1] Calient Networks, Goleta, CA 93117 USA
[2] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Jack Baskin Sch Engn, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[3] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
laser tuning; resonant filters; ring lasers; semiconductor lasers;
D O I
10.1109/68.998697
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A double ring resonator coupled laser (DR-RCL) is proposed and analyzed in this letter. Benefiting from the uniform peak transmission, narrow bandwidth and other superior characteristics of traveling wave supported high-Q resonators, DR-RCLs offers many promising advantages over the conventional tunable lasers, including ultra wide wavelength tuning range, high side mode suppression ratio, uniform threshold and efficiency, narrow linewidth, low frequency chirp, and simple fabrication. A DR-RCL with a moderate optical loss similar to10 dB/cm in the ring resonators can achieve a wavelength tuning enhancement of similar to50. With such a large tuning leverage, DR-RCLs could utilize the electrooptic effects to achieve ultrafast tuning speed with a wide tuning range covering the material gain bandwidth.
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页码:600 / 602
页数:3
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