Effect of front facet reflectivity on transmission characteristics of asymmetric reflectivity DFB lasers
Effect of front facet reflectivity on transmission characteristics of asymmetric reflectivity DFB lasers
- Author(s): K. Kamite ; H. Soda ; K. Kihara ; H. Nishimoto ; H. Ishikawa
- DOI: 10.1049/el:19880835
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- Author(s): K. Kamite 1 ; H. Soda 1 ; K. Kihara 1 ; H. Nishimoto 1 ; H. Ishikawa 1
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1: Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Atsugi, Japan
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1: Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Atsugi, Japan
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Volume 24, Issue 19,
15 September 1988,
p.
1228 – 1229
DOI: 10.1049/el:19880835 , Print ISSN 0013-5194, Online ISSN 1350-911X
We experimentally investigated the dependence of bit-errorrate of DFB lasers on facet reflectivity. We found that stable single-longitudinal-mode operation was obtained by lowering the front facet reflectivity below 1%. These DFB lasers showed no bit-error-rate floor and no mode-partition.
Inspec keywords: distributed feedback lasers; laser modes; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; digital communication systems; error statistics; laser cavity resonators; semiconductor junction lasers; light reflection
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Subjects: Optical communication; Optical communication devices, equipment and systems; Lasing action in semiconductors; Laser resonators and cavities; Laser beam modulation, pulsing and switching; mode locking and tuning; Semiconductor lasers; Laser resonators and cavities
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