We demonstrate a ridge waveguide sampled-grating distributed-feedback laser with quasi-continuous wavelength coverage over a 35nm range. The design is based on a 320nm-thick butt jointed passive waveguide optimized for carrier injection tuning. The butt-joint technology enable optimize the passive waveguide as well as active section. By tuning mirror sections,the laser provides 35nm tuning while maintaining 〉30dB sidemode suppression ratio.
A new dynamic model is developed for simulating the widely tunable grating assisted codirectional coupler with rear sampled grating reflector （GCSR） lasers. The gain section of the device is calculated in timedomain using traveling-wave method, while the transmission spectrum of the coupler and the reflection spectrum of the reflector are firstly simulated in frequency-domain, and then transformed into time-domain via digital filter approach. Both static and dynamic performances based on this model agree well with the published results. Compared with previous works, this new model is more efficient and applicable, especially in the dynamic simulation.
The sampled-grating distributed Bragg reflector(SGDBR) laser is a typical and important photonic integrated device,and has potential wide application to agile optical networks.A new dynamic model for this device has been developed,which combines the traveling-wave method for the active region and the transfer-matrix method for the passive sections into a single procedure.The behaviors of wave-length switching of the SGDBR laser,which include the transient spectrum and mode competition,have been studied in detail using this model.A new efficient way has been proposed to improve the wavelength switching performance only by increasing the coupling coefficients without changing the carrier density.
