Reliability test procedures for tunable lasers

Caterina Ciminelli; Mario Nicola Armenise; Vittorio M. N. Passaro

doi:10.1117/12.472485

3 April 2003 Reliability test procedures for tunable lasers

Caterina Ciminelli, Mario Nicola Armenise, Vittorio M. N. Passaro

Proceedings Volume 4944, Integrated Optical Devices: Fabrication and Testing; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.472485
Event: Photonics Fabrication Europe, 2002, Bruges, Belgium

Abstract

Widely tunable lasers are promising sources for future high-capacity dense wavelength divison multiplexing and photonic switching systems. These devices can be used for sparing in the cold standby mode, restoring in hot standby restoring, rerouting wavelength rerouting or conversion, or fast switching in all-optical networks. Tunable lasers need to demonstrate some featuers such as wide tunability range, optical output power of 10 dBm or more, cost and structure similar to those of commercial DFB lasers. High performance devices would require low laser chirp, high modulation speed, small size and very high reliability. For system applications, requirements on the tunable laser reliability are very stringent. Reliability studies and appropriate related testing procedures are necessary to define stability of tunable lasers and their expected lifetime. In this paper we propose some reliabilty test 'strategies' useful for qualification of tunable lasers with reference to some critical issues of the main technologies used to achieve the tunability feature.

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Caterina Ciminelli, Mario Nicola Armenise, and Vittorio M. N. Passaro "Reliability test procedures for tunable lasers", Proc. SPIE 4944, Integrated Optical Devices: Fabrication and Testing, (3 April 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.472485

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