• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.120-124
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• 1994

PBH-DFB-LD emitting at $1.55\mu\textrm{m}$ wavelength has been fabricated for 2.5 Gbps optical fiber communications. For fabrication of PBH-DFB-LD. inteference expose for grating formation and 3-step LPE epitaxial growth was used. Fabricated PBH-DFB-LD operates in single longitudinal mode with more than 35dB SMSR and its threshold current is less than 15 mA. The operating wavelength is 1530-1550 nm with the temperature dependence of $0.9\AA/^{\circ}C$. Coupling coefficient(K) was estimated as $$97 cm^{-1} by means of stop-band measurement. PBH-DFB-LD fabricated in this experiment can be applicable as light source for 2.5 Gbps optical fiber communication system. ystem.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.8
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• pp.1-11
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• 2002

A multi-section DFB-LD shows optical bistability subject to externally injected light signal, then it has potential applications such as wavelength conversion and optical logic gates. In this paper, we have studied the optical bistability in multi-section DFB-LD using split-step time-domain model. It is confirmed that the multi-section DFB-LD, which is excited inhomogeneously, shows bistability. The optical bistable characteristics are investigated when input light is injected into a absorptive region. Simulation results show that multi-section DFB-LD works as a flip-flop depending on the set-reset optical pulse which has a few ns in switching time and a few pj in switching energy, so that it can act as a optical logic device. Besides, if we change the carrier lifetime and the differential gain coefficient, it is expected that the response time of optical output signal can be reduced.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.206-209
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• 2000

A wavelength stabilized high power CW DFB LD module was designed and fabricated for use in externally modulated, Dense Wavelength Division Multiplex (DWDM) systems. A simple, compact wavelength monitoring technology using a thin solid Etalon and PD array assembly was developed for a low cost wavelength stabilized DFB LD module. Also, the excellent module have high power characteristic of 13.5 mW in CW 100 mA current injection with high optical coupling coefficient over 43%. r 43%.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.327-332
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• 1997

We fabricated the high speed 1.55${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ distributed feedback laser diodes (DFB-LD) using both two-step mesa etching process and semi-insulating InP current blocking layers. The devices characteristics were threshold current of ~15mA, slope efficiency of ~0.13mW/mA, and dynamic resistance of ~6.0Ω, with as-cleaved facets. The fabricated DFB-LD showed the single longitudinal mode with more than 40dB up to 6 $I_{th}$(CW condition), emitting at the wavelength of 0.546${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. The -3dB bandwidth was >10㎓ at the driving current of 27mA, and the maximum -3dB bandwidth was ~18㎓ at 90 mA current, showing the superior frequency response of SI-PBH DFB-LD. In the 10Gb/s transmission experiment for 1.55${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ DFB-LD module, maximum 10 km of single mode fiber(SMF) or 80 km of dispersion shifted fiber (DSF) could be transmitted with error free.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.228-232
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• 1995

We have made modulation doped SMQW-PBH-DFB-LD for high speed optical communications. The waveguide and barrier layers were doped by Zn with the concentration of $1.2 \times 10^{18}cm^{-1}$. Mean threshold current and slope efficiency were 24.88 mA (minimum 16 mA) and 0.197 mW/mA (maximum 0.275 mW/mA) respectively. Linewidth enhancement factor ($\alpha$) of MD-SMQW-PBH-DFB-LD was reduced than that of SMQW-PBH-DFB-LD. Linewidth enhancement factor of 1.8 owes to the large gain coefficient of modulation doped active layer. The resonance frequency was linearly increased with the square root of optical power. The resonance frequency in small signal modulation was measured as 8 GHz and -3 dB modulation bandwidth was 10 GHzat $46mA(I_{th}+30mA)$..

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.68-72
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• 1997

Using one of the absorption lines of $^{13}C_2H_2$ molecules near the zero dispersion wavelength(1549.49nm) of dispersion shifted fiber, we stabilized center frequency of an optical fiber Fabry-Perot filter. The free spectral range of the filter is 100 GHz for 100 GHz channel allocation. For equi-spaced three channel multiplexing, channel locking of three DFB-LDs to transmission peaks of the fiber Fabry-Perot filter was tried. To investigate the effect of dithering current applied to each DFB-LD, the change of DFB-LD linewidth was measured.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.423-430
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• 1994

We designed and fabricated the single mode fiber pigtailed DFB-LD module for 2.5 Gbps optical communication system. In the design of the DFB-LD module, we made the module divided into two parts of inner sub-module and outer 14-pin butterfly package and cylindrical shaped sub-module contain quasi confocal 2 lens system including optical isolator and electrical connection between these parts via hybrid substrate of bias T circuit. Laser welding was used to assemble the sub-module which requires accurate fixing between optical elements. The fabricated DFB-LD module showed optical coupling efficiency of 20% and - 3 dB small signal response of more than 2.6 GHz. We confirmed mechanical reliability of the module by temperature cycle test where the tested module exhibit optical power fluctuation of less than 10%. Finally we evaluated the performance of the fabricated DFB-LD module as light source of 2.5 Gbps optical communication system, sensitivity of - 30.2 dBm was obtained through 47 km optical fiber transmission under the criterion of $1\times10^{-10}$ BER and transmission penalties were 1.5 dB caused by extinction ratio and 1.0 dB caused by chromatic dispersion of normal single mode fiber. fiber.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.31A no.9
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• pp.139-145
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• 1994

InGaAsP/InP PBH-DFB-LD emitting at 1.55${\mu}$m wavelength has been fabricated for 2.5Gbps optical fiber communcations. For fabrication of PBH-DFB-LD, Interference expose for grating formation 3-step LPE epitaxial growth were used. Fabricated PBH-DFB-LD operates in single longitudinal mode with larger than 35dB SMSR and wider than 3dB bandwidth of 3GHz. A 8${\mu}$m mesa structure was introduced by channel etching to reuce parasitic capacitance. To reduce pad capacitance, we designed a small electrode. 0.27mW/mA in the case of spectrum shows single logitudinal mode operation with larger thatn 30dB SMSR measured at 5mW.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.33A no.7
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• pp.1-14
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• 1996

Effects of the external optical feedback on the optical transmission characteristics were evaluated for 3 kinds of commercialized DFB-LD modules for 2.5Gbps optical communication systems. As a result, intensity noise induced by external optical feedback via generating the external cavity modes deteriorated the transmission performances of sthe DFB-LD modules as much as 1.5dB, 1.2dB, and 1.0dB for the maximum feedback ratio of -8.8dB which corresponds to the worst reflection along the fiber transmission line. Additional penalty of 0.5dB was occurrred when state of polarization of feedback light was adjusted. From the experiments evaluating the isolation ratio of the single polarization optical isolator, decrease of the polarization dependent isolation ratio as much as 10dB from that of specification and the effective isolation ratio as much as 20dB from that of specification was mjor cause of high sensitivity of DFB-LD modules to external feedback. It was suggested that polarization independent optical isolator or single polarization optical isolator with isolation ratio specification of more than 40dB is required for 2.5Gbps DFB-LD modules with complete suppression of external feedback effects.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.113-119
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• 1994

We fabricated and characterized RWG-DFB-LDs emitting at $1.3\mu\textrm{m}$ wavelength. For fabrication of the laser diode, inteference fringe of optical beams was used for grating formation and epi layers were grown by LPE. The fablicated RWG-DFB-LD operated in a single longitudinal mode with more than 30 dB SMSR at 1296.5 nm emitting wavelength and its threshold current was 67 mA. Coupling coefficient (K) was estimated as $40cm^{-1}$ by means of stop-band measurement. Finally, we show that the RWG-DFB-LD fabricated in this experiment can be applicable as light source of 2.5 Gbps optical communication system from the fact that the small signal response of the RWG-DFB-LD rated up to 1.99 GHz at pre-bias level of $1.2 I_{th}$..