Time-resolved linewidth measurements of a wavelength switched SG-DBR laser for optical packet switched networks
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Mishra, A.K.; Ellis, A.D.; Barry, L.P.; Farrell, T.
- Source
- OFC/NFOEC 2008 - 2008 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on. :1-3 Feb, 2008
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal Processing and Analysis
Optical packet switching
Wavelength measurement
- Language
We report time-resolved linewidth measurements of different sizes of optical packets under wavelength-switching for the first time and show that laser linewidth is significantly broadened during switching transition requiring ~3 μs to attain its minimum value.