Integrated tunable quantum dot laser for optical coherence tomography in the 1.7µm wavelength region

Authors :: MK Meint Smit
Yuqing Jiao
Huub Ambrosius
Erwin Bente
Xaveer Leijtens
Barry Smalbrugge
Bauke W. Tilma
P. J. A. Thijs
R Richard Nötzel
Junji Kotani
Source :: 2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC).
Publication Year :: 2011
Publisher :: IEEE, 2011.
Abstract: We have designed and fabricated a monolithically integrated continuously tunable laser source for frequency domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) in the 1.6 to 1.8µm wavelength region. The InP-based laser consists of two 8mm long quantum dot (QD) semiconductor optical amplifiers and two electro-optically (EO) tunable filters in a 43.5 mm long ring laser cavity. An 8mm long output amplifier is used to boost the output signal. A picture of the mask is given in Fig. 1a.

Subjects :: Optical amplifier
Distributed feedback laser
Materials science
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Laser
Semiconductor laser theory
law.invention
Optics
Optical coherence tomography
Quantum dot laser
law
medicine
Optoelectronics
Photonics
business
Tunable laser

Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: 2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC)
Accession number :: edsair.doi...........ba8010c20968c38d0d73ce7e83cce3ff
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1109/cleoe.2011.5942585

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