DFB laser with integrated waveguide tapergrown by shadow masked MOVPE

L.N. Langley, David J. Robbins, Peter J. Williams, T.J. Reid, Ingrid Moerman, X. Zhang, Peter Van Daele, Piet Demeester

Electronics Letters · 1996 · 16 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

A novel DFB laser structure is reported, it has an integrated waveguide taper and has enabled 29% butt coupling efficiency into cleaved standard singlemode optical fibre. The taper is fabricated using a shadow masked growth technique which results in a 2-D mode matching taper structure.

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