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

    Authors

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

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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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