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We propose tunable midinfrared laser systems based on dynamic formation of electromagnetically induced optical defect sites. Such defects occur in a waveguide structure having a uniformly corrugated quantum well structure in the absence of any structural defect or phase slip. In the absence of a control laser field, such a corrugated structure causes a uniform perturbation of refractive index along the waveguide. However, when a relatively small region of such a waveguide structure is illuminated from the side by the control laser field, electromagnetically induced transparency occurs in this region while its refractive index corrugation is removed. We also show that such a coherently induced defect can be dynamically moved along the waveguide structure by just steering the control laser beam to illuminate different locations. We utilize the fact that the phase associated with this defect site can be adjusted via changing the length of the illuminated region to present a tunable distributed feedback laser where its lasing wavelength can be continuously varied within the stop-band. We study the case where two coherently induced defect sites happen along the waveguide structure and discuss the impacts of illumination of the whole waveguide structure with the control laser field. We show that the latter can either make the waveguide coherently transparent by destroying its refractive index perturbation and stop-band, or generate a gain-without-inversion grating. Formation of such a grating allows the waveguide to act as a tunable partly gain-coupled distributed feedback laser. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents a study which examined the design and modeling of a distributed feedback (DFB) laser diode integrated with a Mach-Zehnder (MZ) modulator. Description of the models for the DFB laser and the MZ modulator; Discussion on the verification of the model; Detailed analysis for the parameter dependence of the adiabatic frequency chirp along with the power extinction ratio.

The perfectly matched layer (PML) boundary condition for the scalar finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is developed in this letter. It is demonstrated that the PML is suitable and effective in computation of optical waveguides. The results also show how to optimize the parameters of PML [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]