Coupled Cavity Single-Mode Laser Based on Regrowth-Free Integrated MMI Reflectors

Padraic E. Morrissey; Niall Kelly; Mohamad Dernaika; Ludovic Caro; Hua Yang; Frank H. Peters

doi:10.1109/LPT.2016.2541695

Coupled Cavity Single-Mode Laser Based on Regrowth-Free Integrated MMI Reflectors

Padraic E. Morrissey
, Niall Kelly
, Mohamad Dernaika
, Ludovic Caro
, Hua Yang
, Frank H. Peters

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Abstract

A photonic integrated circuit is demonstrated that couples three Fabry-Pérot (FP) lasers together via an integrated star coupler. The FP lasers rely on a common cleaved facet and individual multimode interference reflectors (MIRs) for lasing operation. The MIRs are monolithically integrated with each FP laser using a single growth step, which allows for epitaxial regrowth-free processing. By suitable independent tuning of each Fabry-Pérot, a single mode operation and a mode selection can be attained from the coupled cavity system. The mode selectivity and side-mode suppression ratios of ∼ 40 dB are demonstrated.

Original language	English
Article number	7433389
Pages (from-to)	1313-1316
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	28
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2016.2541695
Publication status	Published - 15 Jun 2016

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators
Integrated optoelectronics
Optical planar waveguide components

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