Claims
- 1. A multiwavelength laser source generation device, comprising:
a single laser source; means for actively modelocking the laser source; and means for simultaneously generating up to approximately 20 wavelength channels from the source.
- 2. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the laser source includes:
a single stripe semiconductor diode laser.
- 3. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 2, wherein the diode laser includes:
Ga As.
- 4. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 2, wherein the diode laser includes:
AlGaAs.
- 5. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the diode laser includes:
InP.
- 6. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the diode laser includes: InAlGaAs.
- 7. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the diode laser includes:
InAlGaP.
- 8. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the diode laser includes:
GaN.
- 9. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the multiple wavelengths include:
approximately 10 GHz picosecond pulses.
- 10. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the wavelength channels each include:
approximately 12 picosecond pulses at a rate of approximately 2.5 GHz.
- 11. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the wavelength channels include:
at least 20 wavelength channels.
- 12. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the twenty wavelength channels each include:
approximately 12 picosecond pulses at a rate of approximately 600 MHz.
- 13. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein each of the channels include:
a spacing between approximately 0.8 nm and approximately 2.1 nm.
- 14. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the device is used for:
an optical WDM (wavelength division multiplexed) and TDM (time division multiplexed) data communications system.
- 15. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the means for modelocking includes:
an optical amplifier with a spectral filter.
- 16. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 15, wherein the optical amplifier includes:
a semiconductor optical amplifier with a grating.
- 17. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 15, wherein the spectral filter includes:
a fan shape.
- 18. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 17, wherein the fan shape includes:
four slits.
- 19. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 15, wherein the spectral filter includes:
a rectangular shape.
- 20. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 19, wherein the rectangular shape includes:
twenty parallel slits.
- 21. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 15, wherein the spectral filter includes:
a fabry perot etalon.
- 22. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 15, wherein the spectral filter includes:
arrayed waveguide grating.
- 23. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 15, wherein the spectral filter includes:
cascaded fiber bragg gratings.
- 24. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 15, wherein the spectral filter includes:
cascaded mach zehnder wavelength demultiplexers.
- 25. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 15, wherein the spectral filter includes:
fiber-grating wavelength demultiplexers.
- 26. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 15, includes:
an output having coherently phase locked optical pulses.
- 27. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 15, includes:
an output having an aggregate data throughput of approximately 100 Gbit/s.
- 28. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 15, wherein the spectral filter includes:
a Fabry-Perot Spectral Filter.
- 29. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the means for modelocking includes:
a fiber array and grating.
- 30. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the laser source includes:
an optical fiber laser.
- 31. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the optical fiber laser includes:
a laser chosen from one of erbium and praesodimium
- 32. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the laser source includes:
a solid state laser.
- 33. The multiwavelength laser source of claim 1, wherein the solid state laser includes:
a laser chosen from one of YAG, fosterite, LISAF, and Ti:Al2O3.
Government Interests
[0001] This invention was funded in part by the National Science Foundation ECS contract number 9522267.
Divisions (1)
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Number |
Date |
Country |
Parent |
09096271 |
Jun 1998 |
US |
Child |
09829759 |
Apr 2001 |
US |