Four-wavelength Microdisk Lasers Laterally Coupling to an Output Bus Waveguide

Ling-Xiu Zou, Xiao-Meng Lv, Yong-Zhen Huang, Heng Long, Qi-Feng Yao, Yun Du

The State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

DOI: 10.4236/opj.2013.32B016                

Abstract

A multiple-wavelength GaInAsP/InP microlaser with microdisk radiuses from 10 m to 10.6 m laterally coupled into a bus waveguide are fabricated by standard photolithygraphy and inductively coupled-plasma (ICP) etching techniques. The lasing wavelengths are 1533 nm, 1541 nm, 1551 nm and 1555 nm at the CW injection current of 10 mA for the four microlasers. The proposed multiple-microlaser array would be useful for realizing compact wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) light source for optical interconnects.

Keywords

Optical Resonator; Microdisk Laser; Laser Arrays

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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