Drive current noise induced linewidth in tunable multielectrode lasers

It is shown that drive current noise could lead to an important increase of linewidth and a Gaussian line shape of tunable multielectrode distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) lasers. As an example, the drive current noise induced linewidth (DCNIL) has been measured to be about 120 MHz using a standard...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE photonics technology letters 1991-04, Vol.3 (4), p.302-304
Hauptverfasser: Duan, G.H., Gallion, P.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:It is shown that drive current noise could lead to an important increase of linewidth and a Gaussian line shape of tunable multielectrode distributed Bragg reflector (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 at 50 Omega resistor to drive the Bragg section of a tested DBR laser. For tunable lasers with an electronic tuning efficiency of more than 1 GHz/mA ultralow noise current sources should be used to ensure a negligible DCNIL.< >
ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/68.82093