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We present a monolithically integrated three-section all-active AlGaInAs/InP tunable distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) ridge waveguide laser diode that uses thermal tuning mechanism and mode-hopping tuning principle to achieve wide-range wavelength tuning. It is similar to the traditional three-section DBR laser structure, including a gain section, a phase section, and a DBR grating section. The d...Show More
Wavelength-tunable mode-locked fiber laser based on dispersion tuning at 1.5 mum and 1.3 mum bands are reported. We realized wide tuning range of over 120 nm and fast tuning rate of over 20 kHz.Show More
Ultrawide-band tunable fiber ring lasers using 84.6-cm-long lanthanum-codoped bismuth-based erbium doped fiber and a narrow-band tunable microelectromechanical system filter are reported. The fiber ring lasers can be continuously tuned from 1520 to 1626 nm, covering both the C- and L-bands. The laser has two outputs; the high output power port exhibits better than 35-dB wavelength extinction ratio...Show More
We present a wavelength-tunable, external-cavity GaSb-based quantum-well laser operating near 3.2 μm. The laser setup consists of an intra-cavity grating in Littman-Metcalf configuration and a cascade pumped GaSb-based gain chip with a narrow-ridge waveguide. The narrow-ridge waveguide has a length of 2 mm and width of 7.5 μm. Cascade pumping is realized with three type-I quantum-wells, using one ...Show More
Watt-level erbium-praseodymium codoped ZBLAN midinfrared fiber laser with 100-nm continuously wavelength-tunable range (2.7-2.8 m) is demonstrated. Continuous-wave output of 1 W with a linewidth of 1.8 GHz over the entire tuning range is affordable. Owing to relatively small residual populations in the lower laser level I of Er ions in the Er-Pr-codoped system, the wavelength-tunable range shrinki...Show More
We report for the first time on study of a passively mode-locked Er-doped fibre laser with ultra-wide tuning (from 1524 to 1602 nm) of the central wavelength of its femtosecond output (503-940 fs). The recently proposed drop-shaped cavity topology for fibre lasers enabled a compact widely tuneable femtosecond laser with a single discrete element, a reflective diffraction grating used for wavelengt...Show More
A new Quantum Cascade laser design with a “two-step” coupling between the injector and the active region provides a voltage tuning range of 200cm−1 for electroluminescence and 80cm−1 for laser spectra at room temperature.Show More
A simple design of a stable multiwavelength pulse generator was demonstrated using a dispersion-tuned actively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber (EDF) ring laser with distributed dispersion cavity. The distributed dispersion cavity in the fiber laser successfully reduced the cross-gain saturation in EDF, and thus, enabled multiwavelength operation. Simultaneous generation of wavelength-tunable 10-GHz...Show More
High-order random Raman fiber lasers are investigated for generating high-power widely wavelength-tunable light sources. By cascaded random Raman lasing and adjusting pump laser wavelength, continuous wavelength tuning from 1 to 1.9 μm is reported. For power scaling, a high-power Yb-doped fiber laser at 1064 nm with improved temporal stability is developed as the pump source. The ninth-order casca...Show More
We realized a wavelength-tunable mode-locked fiber laser using intracavity dispersion. Continuous tuning over 100 nm was obtained at a sweep rate of 20 kHz. Discrete tuning was achieved over 39 nm by inserting a FFPI into the cavity.Show More
Combining intracavity etalon (IE) locked on a laser oscillating mode with a deliberately introduced nonlinear loss, the tuning range of a continuous-wave (CW) single-frequency laser is significantly expanded to transcend the traditional limitation of a free spectral range (FSR) of IE. Due to the action of the nonlinear loss, the frequency of laser oscillating mode can be continuously and smoothly ...Show More
This paper describes the design, fabrication, and record performance of a new class of ultra-wideband wavelength tuning, ultra-low noise semiconductor laser, the Integrated Coherent Tunable Laser (ICTL). The ICTL device is designed for, and fabricated in, a CMOS foundry based Silicon Photonics platform, utilizing heterogeneous integration of III-V material to create the integrated gain section of ...Show More
A simple continuously wavelength-tunable fiber ring laser pulse source is demonstrated. Such a source employs a gain-switched multiple quantum-well Fabry-Perot laser diode in a self-seeding scheme and the output pulse wavelength can be tuned continuously via a tunable optical filter. The optical pulses generated exhibit a pulsewidth of 92 ps at the frequency of 2.6 GHz. Within a wide wavelength tu...Show More
We present a widely tunable laser design based on three intra-cavity Mach-Zehnder interferometers. The laser has been fabricated in a multi-project wafer run and does not require high precision lithography, as needed for SGDBR lasers. We demonstrate 20 nm of tuning range with output powers of approximately 1 mW in fiber. With an excess of 30 dB in side-mode suppression ratio, the laser can find ap...Show More
A room-temperature, grating-tuned external cavity quantum cascade laser is demonstrated. The use of miniaturized components leads to superior performance (8.3 to 9.0 um tuning) and facilitates the development of a robust commercial module.Show More
We present design development and successful demonstration of highly stable, broadly tunable ytterbium-doped double clad fiber ring laser. A tunable Fabry-Perot filter is placed in a unidirectional ring cavity for the purpose of tuning the wavelength of the laser over a range of 60nm (16 THz) from 1040nm to 1100nm with 0.02nm tuning resolution. The linewidth of the laser is smaller than 0.8nm for ...Show More
We studied the wavelength tuning properties of an edge emitting extended cavity laser diode with a micromechanical Fabry-Perot interferometer as an external reflector. It was seen that this arrangement provides essentially similar tuning range (few nanometers) as traditional system with one external mirror only, but with a much smaller mirror movement. In this letter, the theoretical model and the...Show More
Device and tuning characteristics of sampled grating tunable twin-guide laser diodes are presented. The vertically integrated, monolithic widely tunable laser requires only two tuning currents to fully cover a wavelength range of more than 40 nm by electrooptic tuning. Its tuning behavior is quasi-continuous with up to 8.2-nm broad continuous tuning regions. High sidemode suppression (SMSR /spl ge...Show More

Dynamic Single-Mode Lasers

Yasuharu Suematsu

Journal of Lightwave Technology
Year: 2014 | Volume: 32, Issue: 6 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (10)
The 40-year history of research on semiconductor lasers for high-speed long-distance optical fiber communications, so-called dynamic single-mode (DSM) lasers, is reviewed. DSM lasers include phase-shift distributed feedback (DFB) lasers, uniform DFB lasers, wavelength tunable (WT) distributed Bragg reflector lasers, WT distributed reflector lasers, and external reflector lasers. The vertical cavit...Show More

Dynamic Single-Mode Lasers

Yasuharu Suematsu

Year: 2014 | Volume: 32, Issue: 6 | Journal Article |
Thermal tunability for distributed feedback lasers is generally done at slow tuning speed. We study laser current boosting and implement a pre-equalization stage for short wavelength jump, improving the tuning time to the half. A wider jump is also done under a more practical context.Show More
In this paper, we demonstrate a widely tunable dual-wavelength fiber laser, which is based on a thulium-doped fiber and volume Bragg gratings triggering the emission wavelengths in the 2-μm band. A continuously tunable wavelength separation range (Δλ), from 1 to 144 nm (0.08–11.47 THz) is demonstrated, with > 4.5 W of output power over the tuning range. The laser emission exhibits a linewidth (FWH...Show More
A donor-acceptor couple of dyes for laser tuned from yellow to near-infrared spectrum under excitation with single green line nearby 530 nm was explored. Quantum efficiency of energy transfer in the mixture of laser dyes has been evaluated.Narrow-line width laser emission of the examined dye mixtures was obtained in a grating oscillator with a continuous tunable range from 575 to 734 nm.Show More
Tunable external-cavity lasers with low power variation over a broad tuning range are demonstrated using asymmetric multiple quantum-wells with a wide and flat gain. For a 2.8-μm-wide ridge waveguide laser of cavity length 380 μm, when used in a grating external cavity and with an antireflection coating on one facet of laser diode chip, the power variation of less than -1 dB is obtained over a ran...Show More
We report the first actively mode-locked diode-laser fiber-amplifier system with wide wavelength tuning around 1.06$muhbox m$. Tuning is achieved over 45 nm via a feedback grating. Pulses with a repetition rate of 1.4 GHz and a pulse duration of 30 ps are generated with up to 9.5 W of average output power.Show More