Title

Hybrid Wavelength-Division And Optical Time-Division Multiplexed Multiwavelength Mode-Locked Semiconductor Laser

Abstract

A multiwavelength laser source composed of a single semiconductor optical amplifier and a commercially available off-the-shelf wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) filter is constructed and tested under actively mode-locking operation. Five independent mode-locked wavelength channels are generated simultaneously, with a wavelength spacing of 1.6 nm established by the WDM filter. In addition, to demonstrate the potential of this mixed time-frequency, or hybrid WDM-optical time-division multiplexed, signal, we demonstrate a simple parallel-to-serial wavelength conversion to increase the pulse repetition rate of the mode-locked laser by a number of output wavelengths for applications in highperformance optical sampling applications. © 2000 Optical Society of America.

Publication Date

12-20-2000

Publication Title

Applied Optics

Volume

39

Issue

36

Number of Pages

6799-6805

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.39.006799

Socpus ID

0347743856 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0347743856

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