Reliability of widely-tunable SGDBR lasers suitable for deployment in agile networks

Christopher W. Coldren,T. A. Strand,E.R. Hegblom,Yuliya A. Akulova,Greg A. Fish,Mike Larson,Larry A. Coldren

Reliability of widely-tunable SGDBR lasers suitable for deployment in agile networks

2003

Christopher W. Coldren
T. A. Strand
E.R. Hegblom
Yuliya A. Akulova
Greg A. Fish
Mike Larson
Larry A. Coldren

We present reliability data on widely tunable diode lasers with sampled grating Bragg mirrors. The lasers have a median life over two hundred years with a wear-out failure rate below 200 failures per billion device-hours.

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Fiber Bragg grating
Photonic integrated circuit
Tunable laser
Quantum dot laser
Quantum well
Optics
Distributed Bragg reflector
Optoelectronics
Semiconductor laser theory
Engineering
Distributed feedback laser
Electronic engineering
Failure rate

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