DRIVE CURRENT NOISE INDUCED LINEWIDTH IN TUNABLE MULTIELECTRODE LASERS

被引:10
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DUAN, GH
GALLION, P
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[1] Department Communications, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris Cedex 13
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10.1109/68.82093
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
It is shown experimentally, for the first time, that the drive current noise could lead to an important increase of the linewidth and a Gaussian line shape of tunable multielectrode DBR lasers. As an example, the drive current noise induced linewidth (DCNIL) has been measured to be about 120 MHz using a standard dc source through a 50 OMEGA resistor to drive the Bragg section of a tested DBR laser. For tunable lasers with a electronic tuning efficiency of more than 1 GHz/mA ultralow noise current sources should be used to ensure a negligible DCNIL.
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