Widely tunable monolithically integrated lasers using intracavity Mach-Zehnder interferometers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Bente, Erwin; Latkowski, Sylwester; de Vries, Tjibbe; Smit, Meint
- Source
- 2014 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on. :1-4 Jul, 2014
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical filters
Optical device fabrication
Laser tuning
Integrated optics
Cavity resonators
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
semiconductor laser
photonic integration
tuneable laser
- Language
- ISSN
- 2162-7339
2161-2064
Using monolithic integration technology we have designed and fabricated tunable lasers in the 1.5 μm region with a demonstrated tuning range of 60 nm and single mode operation. This performance is achieved using intracavity tunable Mach-Zehnder interferometers that use voltage controlled phase modulators. In this paper we will discuss design considerations and advantages of such tunable lasers.