A hybrid semiconductor-glass waveguide laser

Youwen Fan; Ruud M. Oldenbeuving; Edwin J. Klein; Chris J. Lee; Hong Song; Muhammed R. H. Khan; Herman L. Offerhaus; Peter J. M. van der Slot; Klaus-J. Boller

doi:10.1117/12.2054528

1 May 2014 A hybrid semiconductor-glass waveguide laser

Youwen Fan, Ruud M. Oldenbeuving, Edwin J. Klein, Chris J. Lee, Hong Song, Muhammed R. H. Khan, Herman L. Offerhaus, Peter J. M. van der Slot, Klaus-J. Boller

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Proceedings Volume 9135, Laser Sources and Applications II; 91351B (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054528
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2014, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

We report on a novel type of laser in which a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) receives frequency-selective feedback from a glass-waveguide circuit. The laser we present here is based on InP for operation in the 1.55 μm wavelength range. The Si₃N₄/SiO₂ glass waveguide circuit comprises two sequential high-Q ring resonators. Adiabatic tapering is used for maximizing the feedback. The laser shows single-frequency oscillation with a record-narrow spectral linewidth of 24 kHz at an output power of 5.7 mW. The hybrid laser can be tuned over a broad range of 46.8 nm (1531 nm to 1577.8 nm). Such InP-glass hybrid lasers can be of great interest in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) and as phase reference in optical beam-forming networks (OBFN). The type of laser demonstrated here is also of general importance because it may be applied over a huge wavelength range including the visible, limited only by the transparency of glass (400 nm to 2.35 μm).

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Youwen Fan, Ruud M. Oldenbeuving, Edwin J. Klein, Chris J. Lee, Hong Song, Muhammed R. H. Khan, Herman L. Offerhaus, Peter J. M. van der Slot, and Klaus-J. Boller "A hybrid semiconductor-glass waveguide laser", Proc. SPIE 9135, Laser Sources and Applications II, 91351B (1 May 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054528

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