Summary form only given. In this paper, we demonstrate a tunable multiwavelength mode-locked semiconductor laser based on a single-stripe semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). By actively mode-locking the single-grating-loaded external cavity semiconductor laser system, 20 wavelength channels are simultaneously generated with each wavelength transmitting 12-ps pulses at a 600-MHz rate. A conventional pulse interleaving configuration multiplexes pulse train by eight fold to give a final 5-Gbit/sec pulse rate.
20/spl times/5 Gbit/s optical WDM-TDM transmitter using a single-stripe multiwavelength mode-locked semiconductor laser
1998-01-01
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