Title

168 channels x 6 GHz from a multiwavelength mode-locked semiconductor laser

Authors

Authors

M. Mielke; G. A. Alphonse;P. J. Delfyett

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett.

Keywords

mode-locked lasers; multiwavelength lasers; optical communication; wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM); WAVELENGTH-DIVISION; FIBER; 10-GHZ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Optics; Physics, Applied

Abstract

A gain-flattened multiwavelength mode-locked semiconductor laser generates 168 discrete wavelength channels at 6 GHz. Intracavity etalon filtering delineates the 0.12-nm-spaced channels while spatial filtering inside a spectrometer broadens the laser spectrum to 20 nm. Mode locking produces 85-ps pulses in each channel at 750 MHz. The pulse-repetition rate is multiplied to 6 GHz per channel via optical time-division multiplexing to yield an aggregate pulse rate of 1 THz.

Journal Title

Ieee Photonics Technology Letters

Volume

15

Issue/Number

4

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

501

Last Page

503

WOS Identifier

WOS:000181868900003

ISSN

1041-1135

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