Performance and Reliability of Widely Tunable Laser Diodes
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λ2 OC-192 We are manufacturing widely tunable laser diodes based on an integrated single chip design. The sampled-grating distributed Bragg reflector (SG-DBR) laser is monolithically integrated with a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The continuous wave (cw) output power of the fully packaged device is more than 20mW over the entire C-band with low noise figures and a high side-mode suppression ratio of over 40dB. Devices are made for L-band operation as well. The devices are well suited for long-haul and ultra-long-haul DWDM optical transport systems. Fig. 1: DWDM long-haul optical transmission system.
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