A new scheme based on the electrical-filtered optical heterodyne technique is proposed for measuring the tuning speed of tunable distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) lasers. In this scheme, a 10 GHz high-pass electrical filter is used and the wavelength switching time of a tunable DBR laser for different tuning frequencies corresponding exactly to different delay lines is measured. The switching time is measured to be nearly 300 ns and can be improved by reducing the equivalent resistance-capacitance (RC) time constant of the device. The distribution of the beat signal of the DBR laser in the time domain is also obtained, and is a good match with the waveforms measured using an optical filter.
Based on the high frequency techniques such as frequency response measurement,equivalent circuit modeling and packaging parasitics compensation,a comprehensive optimization method for packaging high-speed semiconductor laser module is presented in this paper.The experiments show that the small-signal magnitude frequency response of the TO packaged laser module is superior to that of laser diode in frequencies,and the in-band flatness and the phase-frequency linearity are also improved significantly.
LIU Yu CHEN ShuoFu WANG Xin YUAN HaiQing XIE Liang ZHU NingHua
