Progress in Y laser technology: Towards application specific designs
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Schilling, M.; Baums, D.; Daub, K.; Idler, W.; Lach, E.; Laube, G.; Wunstel, K.
- Source
- 1993 (5th) International Conference on Indium Phosphide and Related Materials Indium phosphide and related materials Indium Phosphide and Related Materials, 1993. Conference Proceedings., Fifth International Conference on. :509-512 1993
- Subject
- Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Photonics and Electrooptics
Laser applications
Optical design
Laser tuning
Frequency conversion
Optical signal processing
Optical scattering
Semiconductor lasers
Quantum well devices
Power lasers
Optical filters
- Language
The interferometric Y laser has been shown to be a multifunctional device with frequency, space and time processing capabilities, suitable for numerous photonic switching and optical communication applications. Its characteristic feature is the broadband wavelength tunability across the whole spectrum of the semiconductor gain profile. The authors report on recent advances in Y laser technology leading to strong improvements of device properties, and first modifications and optimizations of the original structures making the components ready for system implementation. Various device geometry optimizations are under progress for different system requirements and applications. These structural and technological modifications together with some first experimentally obtained device characteristics are described.ETX