Carrier injection in the grating section is used to tune the emission wavelength of a single growth step, single frequency, ridge waveguide InGaAs/GaAs quantum well distributed Bragg reflector laser with two top contacts. Single longitudinal mode emission with over 30 dB of sidemode suppression is observed throughout a tuning range of 6 nm with 60 mA of injection current in the grating section. The tuning mechanism for these devices is dominated by current injection heating rather than carrier depression of the refractive index
Published in:
Electronics Letters
(Volume:30
,
Issue:
16
)
Date of Publication: 4 Aug 1994