Highly reliable integrated W-band transmitter based on an on-chip dual-mode DFB laser and cascaded microring modulators

Xuying Liu; Wenjia Zhang; Yue Jiang; Han Wang; Dan Lu; Fan Yang; Zuyuan He

doi:10.1364/PRJ.484480

Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 8, 1431(2023)

Highly reliable integrated W-band transmitter based on an on-chip dual-mode DFB laser and cascaded microring modulators

Xuying Liu¹, Wenjia Zhang^1、*, Yue Jiang¹, Han Wang¹, Dan Lu², Fan Yang³, and Zuyuan He¹

¹State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

²Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Material Science, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China

³School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China

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Paper Information

Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Dec. 27, 2022

Accepted: May. 29, 2023

Published Online: Jul. 31, 2023

The Author Email: Wenjia Zhang (wenjia.zhang@sjtu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.484480

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laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

Laser physics

laser manufacturing

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