Multiwavelength 10-GHz picosecond pulse generation from a single-stripe semiconductor diode laser

被引:44
作者
Shi, H [1 ]
Finlay, J [1 ]
Alphonse, GA [1 ]
Connolly, JC [1 ]
Delfyett, PJ [1 ]
机构
[1] SARNOFF CORP,PRINCETON,NJ 08543
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
mode-locked semiconductor lasers; multiwavelength lasers; optical communications; optoelectronic devices; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength-division multiplexing;
D O I
10.1109/68.634701
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 single-stripe GaAs-AlGaAs semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) has been used to generate four tunable wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) channels simultaneously, each transmitting 12-ps pulses at 2.5 GHz, for an aggregate pulse rate of 10 GHz, Wavelength tuning over 18 mn has been demonstrated with channel spacing ranging from 0.8 to 2.1 nm, A potential spectral correlation across the multiwavelength spectrum has been studied in both experiment and simulation methods, These results show the potential for utilizing single stripe laser diodes as multiwavelength sources in WDM-TDM network.
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页码:1439 / 1441
页数:3
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