Butterfly packaged low‐linewidth optical comb source
Author(s) -
Alexander J.K.,
Morrissey P.E.,
Yang H.,
Yang M.,
Zhao Y.,
Rensing M.,
O'Brien P.,
Peters F.H.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1350-911X
pISSN - 0013-5194
DOI - 10.1049/el.2017.0378
Subject(s) - laser linewidth , materials science , optoelectronics , optics , optical communication , comb filter , computer science , telecommunications , physics , laser , bandwidth (computing)
A packaged optical comb source is demonstrated. A low‐linewidth optical comb source is designed and fabricated. The device is packaged in a seven‐pin high‐speed butterfly package with an subminiature version A (SMA) connector for RF modulation and fibre pigtail. Fibre coupling efficiency is estimated at 43%. The packaged comb source is shown to have a linewidth of 300 kHz for the comb line set when modulated at 4 GHz, with eight comb lines within 3 dB of each other. The prototype packaged comb source has applications in high bandwidth telecommunications.
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