III-V/Si Vernier-Ring Comb Lasers (VRCLs)

被引：1

作者：

Bovington, Jock ^{[1
]}

Zheng, Xuezhe ^{[1
]}

Djordjevic, Stevan S. ^{[1
]}

Shubin, Ivan ^{[1
]}

Lee, Jin-Hyoung ^{[1
]}

Lin, Shiyun ^{[1
]}

Luo, Ying ^{[1
]}

Yao, Jin ^{[1
]}

Lee, Daniel Y. ^{[1
]}

Raj, Kannan ^{[1
]}

Cunningham, John E. ^{[1
]}

Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Oracle Networking Grp, San Diego, CA 92121 USA

来源：

IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS | 2017年 / 23卷 / 03期

关键词：

Silicon photonics; hybrid silicon laser; optical interconnections; multiplexing; wavelength filtering devices; WDM source; comb laser;

D O I：

10.1109/JSTQE.2016.2616344

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

We present a novel reconfigurable comb laser design that enables channel sparing, and demonstrate its functionality in a III-V/Si external cavity configuration. The laser is comprised of a single shared tunable Si ring mirror Vernier-paired with an array of tunable channel ring filters each coupled to their respective reflective semiconductor optical amplifier. This comb laser is not only tunable, capable of shifting all comb lines together, but it is flexible, able to change the spacing of channels in the comb within a fixed grid defined by the ring mirror. This flexibility results in features not previously demonstrated in a comb, such as mixed channel spacing and channel sparing capability. This is a practical candidate for flexible, scalable wavelength division multiplexed links targeting the next generation of data centers for the cloud.

引用

页码：15 / 22

页数：8

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