Tunable distributed feedback laser with photonic crystal mirrors

5 May 2003

journal article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 82 (18) , 2942-2944
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1571662

Abstract

We report the development of a tunable laser diode based on InP using photonic crystal mirrors. The laser consists of two longitudinally coupled ridge waveguide segments that are coupled through a photonic crystal mirror segment. A laterally defined binary superimposed grating provides a distributed feedback in each of the cavities. Quasi-continuous tuning is achieved in a 24.5 nm window with 56 channels as typically required by wavelength division multiplexing applications.

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