高速直接调制半导体激光器研究进展

田琦; 韩宇; 张瑞罡; 张敏明

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高速直接调制半导体激光器研究进展

光电器件研究与应用 | 更新时间：2023-04-11

- 高速直接调制半导体激光器研究进展
- Research Progress on High-speed Directly Modulated Semiconductor Lasers
- 光通信研究 2023年第2期页码：55-62
- 作者机构：
  
  a.华中科技大学华中科技大学　光学与电子信息学院，武汉　430074
  b.华中科技大学下一代互联网接入系统国家工程实验室，武汉　430074
  c.华中科技大学武汉光电国家研究中心，武汉　430074
- 作者简介：
  
  田琦（1998－），男，山东淄博人。博士，主要研究方向为新型光通信器件。
  张敏明，教授。E-mail：mmz@hust.edu.cn
- 基金信息：
  
  国家重点研发计划资助项目(2018YFB2201500)
- DOI：10.13756/j.gtxyj.2023.02.009
  中图分类号： TN248
- 纸质出版日期：2023-04-10，
  
  收稿日期：2022-05-17，
  
  修回日期：2022-06-03，
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田琦，韩宇，张瑞罡，等.高速直接调制半导体激光器研究进展[J].光通信研究，2023(2)：55-62.

Tian Q，Han Y，Zhang R G, et al. Research Progress on High-speed Directly Modulated Semiconductor Lasers[J]. Study on Optical Communications，2023(2):55-62.
田琦，韩宇，张瑞罡，等.高速直接调制半导体激光器研究进展[J].光通信研究，2023(2)：55-62. DOI： 10.13756/j.gtxyj.2023.02.009.

Tian Q，Han Y，Zhang R G, et al. Research Progress on High-speed Directly Modulated Semiconductor Lasers[J]. Study on Optical Communications，2023(2):55-62. DOI： 10.13756/j.gtxyj.2023.02.009.

摘要

直接调制半导体激光器因其具有高速传输、高可靠和低成本等特点，成为应用在第五代移动通信技术（5G）前传和数据中心中的高性价比光源。高速直接调制半导体激光器性能提升已有许多研究，文章分别从无制冷宽温工作高速半导体激光器研究方面和超高速半导体激光器方面对高速直接调制半导体激光器的基本理论和发展历程进行了综述，分析各自的优缺点，并介绍了研发团队在这些方面取得的部分进展。

Abstract

High speed directly modulated semiconductor laser offers high speed transmission rate with high reliability and low cost

making it a cost-effective light source choice for 5th Generation Mobile Communication Technology (5G) fronthaul and data center applications.There have been many researches on the performance improvement of high-speed directly modulated semiconductor lasers.This paper reviews the development of high-speed semiconductor lasers from the aspects of uncooled wide-temperature operation research and ultra-high-speed bandwidth improvement.We also briefly introduce our work in this area.

关键词

直接调制半导体激光器宽温超高速分布式反馈激光器失谐加载光子光子谐振

Keywords

directly modulated semiconductor laserwide-temperature operationultra-high speeddistributed feedback laserdetuning loadphoton-photon resonance

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